Ai Competition

A photographer whose photo of a flamingo won a competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images has been disqualified because the picture was genuine.

It packs in everything one would expect from a premium smartphone. This includes a design refresh which puts it in line with more high-end devices from Google, like its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. Google’s also thrown in its Tensor G3 and this adds a lot of AI-enabled features which were not available on the Pixel 7a. However, all of this comes at a...

While Google’s Pixel 7a did undercut the competition in many ways by offering an A-series Pixel with premium features like wireless charging and an IP67 rating, this year’s Pixel adds a noticeable hike by adding a new design and a new processor and thus introducing more AI-features. But this new price tag easily puts the Pixel out of reach for ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook made several call-outs to India during the company’s quarterly earning calls, specifically highlighting the country as an exciting market and an opportunity for it to expand further. The Cupertino-based tech giant has been heavily investing in India in recent years. Cook also revealed that the company made a quarterly revenue r...

The Oppo Find X7 Ultra is the first “Ultra”-branded smartphone from Oppo. It packs a very unique dual periscope camera system which offers excellent flexibility when shooting. Its design is also very unique and feels like a breath of fresh air compared to most smartphones at this price point. But how does it stack up against the existing compet...

Miss AI, the world’s first beauty pageant contest to judge the best artificial intelligence (AI) models and influencers, has been announced. The competition is being held by the World AI Creator Awards (WAIC) and aims to recognise the achievements of AI creators around the world. As per the website listing, the pageant will give out prizes totall...

Baidu has claimed that its Ernie Bot has gained over 200 million users in China, even as the search giant faces rising comeptition from other generative AI chatbots in the country. Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot to be announced in China, but it only won approval for public release in August, one of the first eight AI...

Social media influencers have embraced artificial intelligence to spice up their content but they are also facing growing competition from AI-generated Instagramers, TikTokers and YouTubers.

Microsoft has appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a newly created consumer AI unit and hired several employees of his Inflection AI startup, seeking to defend its lead against rising competition from Google.

Apple researchers have shared their work on building a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM), in a pre-print paper. Published on an online portal on March 14, the paper highlights how it was able to achieve the advanced capabilities of multimodality and make the foundation model train on both text-only data as well as i...

Apple is preparing to add a critical new software tool for app developers that would step up competition with Microsoft. The iPhone maker has been racing to add more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its services and has been working on the tool for the last year as part of the next major version of Xcode. Apple is also said to be expl...

This launch intensifies the competition between Google and Microsoft in the AI space. Both companies believe their AI tools can unlock new levels of creativity and productivity.

OnePlus isn’t forcing AI features on its users like Google and Samsung collectively want to promote in what appears to be a largely stagnated smartphone market that’s lately starved of innovation. While the OnePlus 12 will find its fair share of buyers thanks to its raw power and performance, it isn’t as exciting as OnePlus’s latest foldabl...

iPhone 15 series and iPhone 16 series shipments could drop by up to 15 percent this year, according to TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The smartphone maker is reportedly facing competition from Huawei and other brands in China, while more customers are upgrading to foldable phones and flagship phones with generative AI or GenAI fe...

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, suspends ByteDance's account for reportedly using its technology to develop a large language model, breaching terms.

A photographer whose photo of a flamingo won a competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images has been disqualified because the picture was genuine.

It packs in everything one would expect from a premium smartphone. This includes a design refresh which puts it in line with more high-end devices from Google, like its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. Google’s also thrown in its Tensor G3 and this adds a lot of AI-enabled features which were not available on the Pixel 7a. However, all of this comes at a...

While Google’s Pixel 7a did undercut the competition in many ways by offering an A-series Pixel with premium features like wireless charging and an IP67 rating, this year’s Pixel adds a noticeable hike by adding a new design and a new processor and thus introducing more AI-features. But this new price tag easily puts the Pixel out of reach for ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook made several call-outs to India during the company’s quarterly earning calls, specifically highlighting the country as an exciting market and an opportunity for it to expand further. The Cupertino-based tech giant has been heavily investing in India in recent years. Cook also revealed that the company made a quarterly revenue r...

The Oppo Find X7 Ultra is the first “Ultra”-branded smartphone from Oppo. It packs a very unique dual periscope camera system which offers excellent flexibility when shooting. Its design is also very unique and feels like a breath of fresh air compared to most smartphones at this price point. But how does it stack up against the existing compet...

Miss AI, the world’s first beauty pageant contest to judge the best artificial intelligence (AI) models and influencers, has been announced. The competition is being held by the World AI Creator Awards (WAIC) and aims to recognise the achievements of AI creators around the world. As per the website listing, the pageant will give out prizes totall...

Baidu has claimed that its Ernie Bot has gained over 200 million users in China, even as the search giant faces rising comeptition from other generative AI chatbots in the country. Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot to be announced in China, but it only won approval for public release in August, one of the first eight AI...

Social media influencers have embraced artificial intelligence to spice up their content but they are also facing growing competition from AI-generated Instagramers, TikTokers and YouTubers.

Microsoft has appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a newly created consumer AI unit and hired several employees of his Inflection AI startup, seeking to defend its lead against rising competition from Google.

Apple researchers have shared their work on building a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM), in a pre-print paper. Published on an online portal on March 14, the paper highlights how it was able to achieve the advanced capabilities of multimodality and make the foundation model train on both text-only data as well as i...

Apple is preparing to add a critical new software tool for app developers that would step up competition with Microsoft. The iPhone maker has been racing to add more artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its services and has been working on the tool for the last year as part of the next major version of Xcode. Apple is also said to be expl...

This launch intensifies the competition between Google and Microsoft in the AI space. Both companies believe their AI tools can unlock new levels of creativity and productivity.

OnePlus isn’t forcing AI features on its users like Google and Samsung collectively want to promote in what appears to be a largely stagnated smartphone market that’s lately starved of innovation. While the OnePlus 12 will find its fair share of buyers thanks to its raw power and performance, it isn’t as exciting as OnePlus’s latest foldabl...

iPhone 15 series and iPhone 16 series shipments could drop by up to 15 percent this year, according to TF Securities International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The smartphone maker is reportedly facing competition from Huawei and other brands in China, while more customers are upgrading to foldable phones and flagship phones with generative AI or GenAI fe...

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, suspends ByteDance's account for reportedly using its technology to develop a large language model, breaching terms.