Prosenjit Datta

Southern Asia

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Articles

The SEO is dead, long live the SEO

1 week ago | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

As Generative AI transforms how we search and consume information, the traditional search engine isn’t dying — It’s evolving. But in this shift, the SEO industry must rewrite its own rulebook or risk becoming obsolete
The $50 billion market India is finally targeting

2 months ago | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

PRO Panorama In today’s edition of Pro Panorama: A stock with a lasting imprint, leaders of market rally, NBFC warning signs, priority sector... Read Now
Open Source in Tech: What India can learn from China

Mar 23, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

India and China have embraced open source software for different reasons and with contrasting outcomes. While India focuses on digital public goods like Aadhaar and UPI, China is leveraging open source to build cutting-edge products like the DeepSeek AI model and the C930 chip March 24, 2025 / 08:42 IST
Techno Colonialism: Can India break free from its technology dependence?

Mar 17, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

China’s rapid strides in chips, AI, and quantum computing are closing the tech gap with the US, while India risks falling further behind due to limited investment in cutting-edge research and development. Without urgent reforms, India’s reliance on imported technology may deepen, leaving it a 'techno colony' instead of a global innovator March 18, 2025 / 08:12 IST
President Trump and the unhappiness of the supply chain strategist

Mar 9, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

Supply chain managers worldwide have faced multiple disruptions in the past decade, from the COVID-19 pandemic to geopolitical conflicts. However, the unpredictability brought by Donald Trump’s second term, with rapid tariff threats and trade wars, has created unprecedented challenges March 10, 2025 / 09:05 IST
Breaking the Qubit Barrier: The global push for practical quantum computing

Feb 23, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

Microsoft and Peking University announced Quantum Computing breakthroughs last week.
India is late to the LLM party, but can it still make a splash?

Feb 5, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

What is needed is a clear headed approach to AI research and innovation.
Why India cannot create a DeepSeek

Jan 28, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

Successive governments in India have lacked the vision and ambition to be a world leader in science and technology January 29, 2025 / 08:54 IST No Indian company thought of stockpiling Nvidia GPUs like DeepSeek or other Chinese AI companies Highlights China is competing fiercely with the US in areas as diverse as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Nuclear Fusion, chip design and manufacturing, Gene Editing and fighter aircraft Though it often boasts of its big pool of STEM graduates,...
The importance of being DeepSeek

Jan 26, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

Just when the US AI titans thought they had the market cornered, a Chinese startup has managed to build an AI model that is at par with the best at a fraction of the cost, throwing the market wide open January 27, 2025 / 09:49 IST There is some criticism of DeepSeek – it refuses to answer contentious questions about China Highlights Unlike OpenAI’s o1, which is very expensive, China’s DeepSeek R1 is Open Source and free DeepSeek performed extremely well on multiple benchmark tests The Chinese...
US’ proposed AI Diffusion Framework poses risk to India’s tech ambitions

Jan 19, 2025 | moneycontrol.com | Prosenjit Datta

While in the short run, the practical impact of this proposal on India will not be significant, it essentially hobbles the country’s future ability to be a major player in the technology January 20, 2025 / 10:24 IST -The AI Diffusion Framework has predictably divided the US tech giants into separate camps (Representative image) Highlights The US has, in the last week of the Biden administration, proposed an AI Diffusion Framework It divides the world into three tiers as far as access to the...