The barrier is falling Until 2024, training a usable coding base model cost tens of millions of dollars in corpus cleaning and pretraining. Today, with Meta’s Llama 3, Kimi and DeepSeek open models, general code ability has been commoditised. A startup no longer reinvents the wheel: take a strong open base, feed cleaned code and … Read more
Every frontier release from Silicon Valley now lands on the Indian market like a precision-guided quake. Across the first half of 2026, more than 23bn dollars in foreign money fled, dragging foreign ownership to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen fourteen years ago. The Nifty IT index, India’s answer to the Hang Seng Tech … Read more
On 31 July, OpenAI cut API prices across the GPT-5.6 family. The steepest cut hits Luna, down 80 per cent, input to $0.2 per million tokens, output to $1.2. The balanced Terra model drops 20 per cent, input $2, output $12 per million. The flagship Sol holds its price but gains a Fast mode running … Read more
On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. It wasn’t about NVIDIA’s latest GPU, earnings, or a product launch. It was about open source AI. Huang’s newly created X (Twitter) account shared an open letter titled “Open-Weight Models and American AI Leadership,” signed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, Y Combinator, and 15+ … Read more