We fund academic centres at IIT, and work long-term for creating impact: Rahul Mehta, founder, Mehta Family Foundation

We fund academic centres at IIT, and work long-term for creating impact: Rahul Mehta, founder, Mehta Family Foundation

Rahul Mehta is the founder of the Mehta Family Foundation (MFF), which partners with IITs to establish new academic centres offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programmes, along with support for research. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Texas, USA, the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation was established by Rahul and his siblings in […]

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI talent war: ‘Our talent retention is healthy’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI talent war: ‘Our talent retention is healthy’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company continues to attract top AI talent, brushing off concerns about the ongoing AI talent war in Silicon Valley, where top tech companies are poaching talent from each other to stay ahead in the intensifying AI race. During Alphabet’s second-quarter earnings call, Pichai said Google has seen such moments […]

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Who is Varun Mohan, Windsurf CEO who triggered a talent war between Google and OpenAI?

Who is Varun Mohan, Windsurf CEO who triggered a talent war between Google and OpenAI?

The AI talent raid seems to be intensifying. Google has now onboarded several key members from Windsurf, a startup that works on AI code generation. Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, has been brought in along with co-founder Douglas Chen and other senior research and development staff from the company.  Talking about the latest […]

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OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up

OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up

OpenAI has recruited several employees from Crossing Minds, the startup that develops AI recommendation systems, said in an announcement on Thursday, June 30.  “Joining OpenAI allows us to bring our work — and our values — into a mission we deeply respect: to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re thrilled to bring […]

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IIT-Madras, Emeritus launch certification programme in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

IIT-Madras, Emeritus launch certification programme in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

IIT Madras, in collaboration with the ed-tech platform Emeritus and IBM, has introduced the Advanced Certification Programme in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, designed to bridge the growing skill gap between AI innovation and industry-ready talent. The initiative comes under the purview of IITM Pravartak, the technology innovation hub of the institute, which is […]

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Looking for the right machine learning course? Here are 10 questions answered

Looking for the right machine learning course? Here are 10 questions answered

Nearly 87 per cent of enterprises in India are likely to increase annual artificial intelligence (AI) spending by more than 10 per cent in the next three years, a recent report by Bain & Company in collaboration with Microsoft reflects. Most industries working with large amounts of data have recognised the value of machine learning […]

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IIT Mandi, NSDC launch Data Science, Machine Learning certificate programmes

IIT Mandi, NSDC launch Data Science, Machine Learning certificate programmes

The Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT-Mandi) in collaboration with the National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) have launched a six-month certificate and a nine-month advance certificate programme in the domain of Data Science and Machine Learning. The programme will commence in the first week of November. The course will be conducted through live-streaming sessions by […]

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How researchers are monitoring biodiversity from far away by ‘listening to the forest’

How researchers are monitoring biodiversity from far away by ‘listening to the forest’

Researchers have developed a new hands-off approach to monitoring biodiversity, where they use a network of recording devices to record a soundscape of a region. The SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems) Acoustics project uses these sound recorders and machine learning models to monitor for changes in this soundscape over time and get early warnings […]

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Affiliate marketing, SEO, machine learning among preferred skills for hiring freshers: Report

Affiliate marketing, SEO, machine learning among preferred skills for hiring freshers: Report

Affiliate marketing specialist, site reliability engineer, molecular biologist, user experience researcher, and ML Engineer are some of the most sought-after skills that employers look for in freshers, TeamLease Edtech Career Outlook Report reveals. The report identified the top 10 job roles and skills for freshers hired in various industries.  As per the report, close to […]

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IIT Guwahati incubates 42 start-ups to promote entrepreneurial ecosystem

IIT Guwahati incubates 42 start-ups to promote entrepreneurial ecosystem

The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati’ s Technology Incubation Centre (TIC) has incubated 42 start-ups that will work in different sectors such as robotics, IT, water, oil sector, biotechnology, Machine Learning, IoT, renewable energy, home automation, and logistics. These start-ups have been incubated by the incubation centre that aims to provide space for new entrepreneurs […]

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