Kalim Ahmed

2 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Kalim Ahmed

It might be a cliché to say, but the Internet really has been taken by storm by the new image generation capabilities of ChatGPT’s 4o model. Everywhere you look, friends, acquaintances, and friends-of-friends are sharing AI-edited photos that resemble the dreamy and painterly aesthetic of Studio Ghibli films: The Japanese animation studio, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki, is known for its rich fantasy worlds and strong anti-war themes.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Kalim Ahmed |Srinivas Kodali |Eshwar Sundaresan |Jinoy Jose P

On the last weekend of January, a little-known Chinese company upended the tech world’s established order. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, rattled Silicon Valley giants and sent shockwaves through global markets after releasing its AI assistant. By the end of the weekend, the AI assistant had topped the downloads chart on both Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, even straining DeepSeek’s own systems to the point of temporary shutdown.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy |Kalim Ahmed

Last week, a seismic shift rippled across the globe when a subsidiary of a Chinese hedge fund unveiled DeepSeek R1, a reasoning AI model that is not only partly open-source but also competes with some of the best models on key benchmarks. The frenzy surrounding DeepSeek quickly became a global talking point—including in India. Some arguments online were valid, others misplaced.

Jan 13, 2025 | maktoobmedia.com | Kalim Ahmed

I was once that teen, just another kid navigating changes. But what set my experience apart, what stripped away the innocence of that growth, was my identity as a Muslim. More specifically, as a Bengali Muslim in a part of India, I hesitate to name out of fear. In that region, being Bengali Muslim meant being seen as a pest, an “illegal” outsider, something so subhuman that it needed to be erased.

Jan 6, 2025 | maktoobmedia.com | Kalim Ahmed

Lately, I have been wondering about the shortcomings of journalism in the 2010s, a period when publishers and newsroom leaders were swept up in the intoxicating optimism surrounding the flourishing of Big Tech and its expansive reach. It completely changed journalism in that era. Journalists often ruminate on this period, and how well-paying it was even as a freelancer. The click-through rates were soaring. Many publishers even “pivoted to video,” driven by metrics provided by Big Tech companies.