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The four key startups leading the race to build India's first LLM
With the government's support, work begins on foundational models for AI services Aashish Aryan Avik Das New Delhi/Bengaluru Listen to This Article India will be ready with its first indigenously developed artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) in six to eight months, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, on January 30 this year. The move was seen as India's response to DeepSeek, an open-source LLM developed in China, reportedly at a fraction of the cost it took to create other models globally. (LLMs are AI programmes trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language.) But Indian government officials say they are not merely reacting to events elsewhere. A plan to develop indigenous
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Business Standard
07-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Double contribution convention not major mover for labour displacement
Despite tax savings from UK-India FTA's social security waiver, analysts say high costs and limited incentives may not significantly boost Indian IT deployments to the UK Shivani Shinde Avik Das Listen to This Article A day after the free trade agreement (FTA) was signed between India and the UK, the double contribution convention — an exemption on national insurance contributions — has emerged as a key issue. Analysts in India, however, feel that this may not lead to a significant increase in the number of Indian employees being sent to the UK. According to media reports from the UK, the fear is that this may lead to hiring more people from India than the locals. However, the UK already has similar reciprocal 'double contribution convention' agreements with 17 other countries. The Indian IT services
Mint
28-04-2025
- General
- Mint
WBCHSE HS result 2025 date, time declared: How to check scorecard on wbresults.nic.in and wbchse.wb.gov.in?
WBCHSE HS result 2025: The West Bengal Board Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) is all set to release the Uchcha Madhyamik results next month. In a recent notification, the council has announced the date and time of WBCHSE HS Class 12 results. Students who are waiting for their West Bengal board Class 12 results can check them at official websites and also The WBCHSE result will be announced for Commerce, Arts and Science students. The WBCHSE is also set to hold a press conference to announce the results, the notification said. WBCHSE HS result date has been fixed on Wednesday, May 7. The WBCHSE HS result will be declared at 12:30 pm in a press conference. Students can check their WBCHSE HS result on official websites or Step 1: Visit the official website or Step 2: Click on Higher Secondary results Step 3: Enter roll number, date of birth to login Step 4: Your mark sheet will appear on the screen Step 5: Download the mark sheet and take a printout for future use. The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) commenced the Class XII board examinations on March 3. The exams were conducted in a single shift from 10 am to 1 pm across various centres. The exams, which began with the first language paper, continued until March 18, concluding with subjects such as statistics and geography. Over five lakh candidates, the majority of them girls, appeared in the West Bengal Higher Secondary examinations which began on March 3. Last year 7,90,000 candidates wrote their papers for the class 12 examinations but this year 5.09 lakh candidates appeared in the examinations. Of the total candidates 5.09 lakh candidates appeared in the higher secondary examination, 2.77 lakh were girls. Candidates wrote papers in 2,089 examination centres fitted with CCTV cameras to prevent any unfair practice during exams. New subjects like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science will be among the 62 subjects in this year's higher secondary examinations. In 2024, Avik Das from McWilliam Higher Secondary School was the topper getting 496 marks out of 500 with 99.2 per cent. Soumyadip Saha of Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya in South 24 Parganas got the second rank (495 marks) while Abhishek Gupta of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir of Malda secured third position with 494 marks. First Published: 28 Apr 2025, 10:04 PM IST
