Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, on Friday launched its chat app Indus for web and mobile users, entering a fast-growing market dominated by global players including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The launch comes at a time when India has emerged as a key battleground for the … Read more
Despite having only 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or exceeds the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details. A little background on the Ferret In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study titled “FERRET: Refer and Ground Anywhere Anywhere at any Granularity”. In it, they … Read more
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The creator economy is growing rapidly, and ad revenue alone is no longer cutting it. YouTubers launch product lines, acquire startups, and build real business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is earning his media arm. This is not just a strategy of one creator. For many, this … Read more
Apple is developing a more affordable version of the MacBook, and it’s said to be on the market in less than two weeks. This will be one of the most unique Macs from Apple, because there is nothing like it before. We’ve rounded up everything we know about the budget MacBook ahead of its March … Read more
Taking proactive steps to protect your privacy and your family’s has never been more important than today. Buying and selling personal data is now big business, and hundreds of data brokers are doing just that. Trying to manually remove your family’s data from the web is incredibly difficult, but luckily there is a very simple … Read more
My iPhone stays silent most of the time, but the new iOS 26 ringtone made me very tempted to reconsider that choice because it’s such a nice tune. Here is my new favorite iPhone ringtone. “Dreamer” in iOS 26 is a beautiful redesign of the default iPhone ringtone I remember the days before smartphones when … Read more
After nearly 40 years at Microsoft, Xbox boss and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving the company, along with Xbox president Sarah Bond. Spencer’s retirement was announced on February 20 in a statement from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, stating, “Last year, Phil Spencer decided to leave the company, and we have been talking about … Read more
Scott Rogowsky is a comedian – he knows how to make fun of himself. So he ended up wandering around New York City Comic Con with his own photo printed as a “Wanted” poster, filming himself asking strangers, “Have you seen this man?” These passers-by showed a flash of appreciation, looking at the tall bearded … Read more
Not yet, it seems. “To be clear, there are no organizational changes at our studios,” Microsoft Gaming EVP Matt Booty wrote in a note today. It’s kind of buried under everything else Microsoft’s outgoing and incoming game directors are saying, so figure it’s worth bringing to the surface!