Local Languages

A video showing a heated conversation between a local Bengaluru resident and a non-Kannada speaker is going viral on social media, sparking mixed reactions.

On celebrating diversity, Modi emphasised that India boasts of hundreds of languages and religious practices, each with its local adaptations, distinct food habits, social customs, and rituals.

Pichai announced "Global AI Opportunity Fund" at the event and said that the AI education will be done in local languages, in partnerships with nonprofits and NGOs.

The woman's remarks have intensified the ongoing insider-outsider debate, with many locals advocating for job opportunities to favour Kannadigas.

Google announced that its AI Overviews is getting several new features and being expanded to new regions on Thursday. With this update, the Google Search-based snapshot feature will be available in India and six other countries. The expansion will also include local language support in each country. Notably, it was rolled out in May and was made av...

The move will help students from the tribal community to receive quality education in their mother tongue.

Gigabyte unveiled its end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) solution to train large language models (LLMs) locally on a device during AMD’s Computex 2024 event. The full-stack AI solution includes AI Top Utilities, AI Top Hardware, and AI Top Tutor, which encompass various aspects of training open-source AI models. AI Top Utilities is a trainin...

Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...

Microsoft is shipping an on-device large language model (LLM) with all Copilot+ PCs. The company announced its latest variant of the Phi-3 AI model at the Microsoft Build event dubbed Phi-Silica. This has now become the fifth variant of Phi-3 and also becomes the officially smallest LLM (or SLM) at just 3.3 billion parameters.

Actor Harshika Poonacha, who works predominantly in Kannada movies, claimed she and her husband Bhuvann Ponnannaa were harassed for speaking in the local language by a group of men who also tried to rob them.

Apple is reportedly in talks with the Chinese tech giant Baidu to use its large language model (LLM) and artificial intelligence (AI) services for its own ecosystem in China. The rumoured partnership could see the local AI player letting the Cupertino-based tech giant access its AI capabilities and even the native AI assistant Ernie Bot.

Highlighting the significance of awareness about mental health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to digital content creators to create content on the issue in local languages in an effort to reach out to the mass audience.

Indus Appstore will be available for consumers later this month. The app store confirmed to list apps in 12 Indian languages besides English and it has already onboarded a variety of apps including Flipkart, ixigo, Domino's Pizza, Snapdeal, JioMart, and Bajaj Finserv. PhonePe's foray into the app store business with Indus Appstore is expected to di...

Google Maps is introducing a new way to discover places with generative AI. The new feature will use large language models (LLMs) to analyse more than 250 million locations on Google Maps and contributions from over 300 million contributors to pull up suggestions based on users' specific needs. The generative AI tools in Google Maps will be rolling...

Union minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday that while he does not hold with violence, he did agree with the demand that shop signages in Karnataka should be predominantly in the local language.

A video showing a heated conversation between a local Bengaluru resident and a non-Kannada speaker is going viral on social media, sparking mixed reactions.

On celebrating diversity, Modi emphasised that India boasts of hundreds of languages and religious practices, each with its local adaptations, distinct food habits, social customs, and rituals.

Pichai announced "Global AI Opportunity Fund" at the event and said that the AI education will be done in local languages, in partnerships with nonprofits and NGOs.

The woman's remarks have intensified the ongoing insider-outsider debate, with many locals advocating for job opportunities to favour Kannadigas.

Google announced that its AI Overviews is getting several new features and being expanded to new regions on Thursday. With this update, the Google Search-based snapshot feature will be available in India and six other countries. The expansion will also include local language support in each country. Notably, it was rolled out in May and was made av...

The move will help students from the tribal community to receive quality education in their mother tongue.

Gigabyte unveiled its end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) solution to train large language models (LLMs) locally on a device during AMD’s Computex 2024 event. The full-stack AI solution includes AI Top Utilities, AI Top Hardware, and AI Top Tutor, which encompass various aspects of training open-source AI models. AI Top Utilities is a trainin...

Nvidia unveiled Project G-Assist, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by its Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme (RTX) platform on Sunday at Computex 2024. The tech giant introduced it as a personal gaming assistant for PCs that can answer queries about any video game including gaming strategies and analysing multiplayer replays. The AI comes w...

Microsoft is shipping an on-device large language model (LLM) with all Copilot+ PCs. The company announced its latest variant of the Phi-3 AI model at the Microsoft Build event dubbed Phi-Silica. This has now become the fifth variant of Phi-3 and also becomes the officially smallest LLM (or SLM) at just 3.3 billion parameters.

Actor Harshika Poonacha, who works predominantly in Kannada movies, claimed she and her husband Bhuvann Ponnannaa were harassed for speaking in the local language by a group of men who also tried to rob them.

Apple is reportedly in talks with the Chinese tech giant Baidu to use its large language model (LLM) and artificial intelligence (AI) services for its own ecosystem in China. The rumoured partnership could see the local AI player letting the Cupertino-based tech giant access its AI capabilities and even the native AI assistant Ernie Bot.

Highlighting the significance of awareness about mental health, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to digital content creators to create content on the issue in local languages in an effort to reach out to the mass audience.

Indus Appstore will be available for consumers later this month. The app store confirmed to list apps in 12 Indian languages besides English and it has already onboarded a variety of apps including Flipkart, ixigo, Domino's Pizza, Snapdeal, JioMart, and Bajaj Finserv. PhonePe's foray into the app store business with Indus Appstore is expected to di...

Google Maps is introducing a new way to discover places with generative AI. The new feature will use large language models (LLMs) to analyse more than 250 million locations on Google Maps and contributions from over 300 million contributors to pull up suggestions based on users' specific needs. The generative AI tools in Google Maps will be rolling...

Union minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday that while he does not hold with violence, he did agree with the demand that shop signages in Karnataka should be predominantly in the local language.