Saritha Rai

Essential AI Labs, a startup founded by two authors of the seminal Transformer paper, unveiled its first model, seeking to boost US open-source efforts at a time when Chinese players are dominating that segment of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft Corp.’s chief Satya Nadella this week becomes the latest tech leader to visit India, joining a procession of industry bigwigs seeking to court a potentially massive market and use the world’s most populous country as a proving ground for AI.

India is the next battleground for some of the world’s biggest AI companies.

China’s DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago, adding fresh capabilities the startup said would help with combining reasoning and executing certain actions autonomously.

Tsinghua University has educated the country’s top science and engineering students for decades. Now, it’s at the forefront of the AI revolution.

OpenAI Inc. is offering a free year of its ChatGPT Go service to users in India, raising its bid to capture a market of 1.4 billion people.

DeepSeek updated an experimental AI model in what it called a step toward next-generation artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm Bain & Co. is estimating the shortfall could be far larger than previously understood.

Despite a late foray into the brain technology industry, Chinese startups have made rapid strides in recent years to challenge US companies.

Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it’s taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security.