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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10h

Anthropic Lands in Bangalore!
Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week

The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 10h

Anthropic Lands in Bangalore!
Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week

The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 8d

DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp
(Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award)

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 8d

DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp
(Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award)

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 15d

A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 15d

A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
@bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 19d

A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 19d

A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Sep 5

New!
DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Sep 5

New!
DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 29

My newsletter from Hangzhou!

Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 29

My newsletter from Hangzhou!

Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 13

India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion

Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 13

India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion

Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 12

DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world
To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model.

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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow

A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 12

DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world
To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model.

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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow

A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.

www.bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 11

Who's winning the AI war - US or China?

Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Aug 11

Who's winning the AI war - US or China?

Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via @bloomberg.com

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Jul 31

China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market

China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age

My story from Shanghai with our China team

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Jul 31

China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market

China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age

My story from Shanghai with our China team

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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Jul 28

In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots.

Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Jul 28

In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots.

Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.

tinyurl.com/4j2uuaej

#AI

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · Jul 26

China robot maker Unitree unveils AI-powered humanoid at starting price of ~$6,000, breaking the price barrier. The R1 has 26 joints, weighs 25 kg, & has multi-modal voice + image recognition AI capabilities
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