Reliance Industries plans to build a 3-gigawatt AI data center in Jamnagar, India, costing $20–30 billion. The facility will use renewable energy and Nvidia chips, positioning India as a global AI contender.
Meta plans to invest $65 billion in AI infrastructure by 2025, targeting 1.3 million GPUs and a Louisiana data center to power its Llama 4 model, as global competition intensifies with Trump’s $500B Project Stargate.
Perplexity assistant for Android offers advanced task automation and app integration for free, disrupting the market dominated by costly alternatives.
OpenAI’s Operator uses GPT-4o to automate pizza orders, NBA ticket bookings, and image-based shopping. Available to U.S. Pro users, it faces EU delays and privacy concerns over 90-day data retention.
ByteDance’s Doubao-1.5-pro AI model surpasses OpenAI’s o1 in complex reasoning benchmarks, while UI-TARS automates computer tasks. Both models offer radical cost savings, reshaping global AI economics.
Tencent’s Hunyuan3D 2.0 AI system generates high-resolution 3D assets in seconds using a two-stage pipeline. Open-sourced on GitHub, it outperforms rivals in user studies and benchmarks, with applications from gaming to AR retail.
Trump rescinded Biden’s AI executive order on his first day in office, rolled back telework policies for federal employees, and prioritized in-person work.
The Stargate project, backed by $500B from SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI, aims to establish U.S. AI supremacy through Texas data centers, job creation, and private-sector partnerships, amid geopolitical rivalry with China.
DeepSeek’s R1, is the Chinese groundbreaking open-source reasoning model, is redefining the global AI race by challenging U.S. dominance.
