The latest setback has fueled worries that ‌Google was losing ⁠momentum just ⁠as OpenAI and Anthropic and a host of Chinese rivals have accelerated the pace of model releases. On the call on Wednesday, Pichai struck an unusually ​defensive tone as analysts pressed him on the state of Google's frontier models and whether they could still compete at the cutting edge ​of AI development. View the full article

This includes 30 billion and 105 billion parameter models by Sarvam AI, a speech-to-speech model by Gnani.AI, BharatGen's multilingual foundation models, and Avataar AI's video generation model. All these startups have been funded by the government as part of a push to develop indigenous AI models. Of the 20 models, five have been released so far. View the full article