Analytics India Magazine

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Mohit Pandey

Infosys reported a net profit of $814 million for the January–March quarter of FY25, down 11.7% from $959 million in the same period last year. Revenue, however, grew 7.9% year-on-year to $4.7 billion. The total revenue for the financial year stood at $19 billion, representing a marginal growth of 3.9%. Amidst this, CEO Salil Parekh, showed confidence in generative AI. During the press conference, he said, “We’ve seen growing demand from clients to partner with them on AI.

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Siddharth Jindal

The Machine Intelligence Testing for Risks (METR), an organisation that works with OpenAI to test their models,  alleged that the AI company’s o3 model appears to have a greater tendency to cheat or hack tasks to boost its score. In its blog post, the benchmarking company said the o3 evaluation was conducted in a short timeframe with limited access to information. METR gets early access to test OpenAI models. This preliminary analysis was done three weeks before the models were made public.

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Siddharth Jindal

Microsoft Research has introduced BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a new 2-billion parameter language model that uses only 1.58 bits per weight instead of the usual 16 or 32. Despite its compact size, it matches the performance of full-precision models and runs efficiently on both GPUs and CPUs.The model was trained on a large dataset containing 4 trillion tokens and performs well across a wide range of tasks, including language understanding, math, coding, and conversation.

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Mohit Pandey

AI PCs have begun reshaping the future of computing; however, they still remain bracketed in the premium sector of the market. In India, major players HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer are working hard to reduce prices, making these futuristic devices accessible to a broader audience in the coming years. Acer India, for instance, is taking a multi-pronged approach to stay ahead in the race.

1 week ago | analyticsindiamag.com | Siddharth Jindal

OpenAI has released two new models, o3 and o4-mini, along with a new code generation tool called Codex CLI,marking the latest advancement in its o-series. These models represent a shift in ChatGPT’s capabilities by combining deeper reasoning with full tool access. The company calls them “the smartest models” they have released to date, which are able to use all tools within ChatGPT—including web browsing, Python, file analysis, and image generation—in a single workflow.