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Forbes
3 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
From Humanoids To Driverless Cars: Why The Next Rung On The AI Ladder Will Require A New Kind Of Network
Ivo Ivanov is the CEO of DE-CIX. It's been a busy year for AI. So much so that the biggest tech and trade events on the calendar were dominated by it, from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to Hannover Messe in Germany. But what sets 2025 apart from previous years is how AI is now being framed—humanoid robots capable of conversational nuance and problem-solving, autonomous vehicles that can react in milliseconds to changing road conditions and new devices that are engineered from the ground up to deliver AI as a core function rather than just a novelty. Blink and you'll miss it, but AI is now stepping out of the cloud and into the world. This illustrates the turning point we've reached in 2025. Automation is yesterday's news. These aren't systems designed to crunch data or follow routines; rather, they're machines built to engage, react and make decisions in real time, and they're already feeling the constraints of centralized AI infrastructure. For over a decade, we've fed ever-larger models with ever-larger datasets, assuming more compute would always mean better outcomes. But inference—the act of using AI, not just training it—demands more than processing power. It demands presence and proximity. And that demand is colliding with a system designed for throughput, not immediacy. The future of AI isn't gated by model size or memory capacity. It's gated by latency—the new bottleneck, and the new benchmark, for AI in motion. Why Latency Is The New Currency For years, the AI conversation has revolved around training. Where to run it, how fast it can be done and how much GPU horsepower it will need. It's led to a boom in hyperscale data centers, sprawling training clusters and chip innovation that's breaking new ground almost monthly. But this emphasis on training has cast a long shadow over the other half of the equation: inference. Unlike training, which can be done in the background and often at a distance, inference is live. It's AI in action—detecting, responding, adapting—and it can't afford to wait. For a voice assistant to feel truly responsive, a self-driving car to process visual inputs and respond safely, a care robot to interact with its patients, the threshold of latency is in the single-digit millisecond range—and should move closer to zero over time. So, while an individual demonstration of the technology might offer a nice head rush, the reality of rolling it out (at scale) is far more sobering. As inference workloads move into physical environments, latency becomes a liability, a variable that can't be abstracted away with more compute. And the closer we try to align AI with human-level cognition and perception, the clearer the challenge becomes: milliseconds matter. The 'Triangle Of Inference'—And Its Fragility Behind every responsive AI system is a simple but unforgiving structure. Picture a triangle. On one corner sits the AI model itself, whether it's a language model parsing speech or a vision model interpreting road signs. On the other hand, there is the connected device: the robot, the vehicle, the drone or even the industrial sensor, triggering a chain of decisions. And anchoring the third corner is the transmission technology (fiber, 5G, satellite) that links them both together. In theory, it's an elegant system. But in practice, real-time AI only works when all three corners of the triangle are tightly synchronized. If the model is too far from the device, or the transmission link introduces jitter, or the compute node is overloaded, the system stalls. In this scenario, AI without immediacy is like a smartphone with a dead battery: It's intelligent, but for all its bells and whistles, it can't do what it's designed to do. This isn't a software problem that can be engineered out. You can have the best-trained model, the smartest agent and the most efficient algorithm, but if it takes too long to reach the device that needs it, the whole triangle collapses. Congested mobile networks, poorly placed infrastructure, edge devices hovering at the fringes of coverage—these are daily roadblocks to real-world deployment. What we're confronting is not a lack of AI capability; it's a systemic disconnect between compute, connectivity and context—and to solve it, we need to reevaluate how we design, deploy and optimize infrastructure. Location, Location, Location The Internet was never built for responsiveness or performance—it was simply built for reach. And for most of its history, furthering that purpose has made perfect sense. Web pages could take a few seconds to load. Streaming services could buffer. Even cloud apps could afford a few hundred milliseconds of delay. But AI has changed the stakes. Inference doesn't just need connectivity or 'reach'—it needs closeness. A response delivered a second too late might as well not arrive at all. This is where geography matters. Much of today's Internet traffic moves through what might be called digital 'flyover cities'—places where data passes through on long-haul fiber but has no way to break out locally. The infrastructure exists, but the interconnection points don't. That creates avoidable detours and latency penalties, even for traffic that originates just down the road. To keep pace with AI's demand for proximity, we need a new layer of infrastructure: small interconnection hubs distributed within 50 to 100 miles of users. These aren't full data centers or edge compute clusters—they're lean, neutral exchange points designed to keep data local when it makes sense and send it on its way smartly when it doesn't. Because if AI is going to live in our homes, cars, factories and cities, connectivity can't just exist in the usual tech hotspots. It needs to be wherever we are. 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The Advertiser
04-08-2025
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Honda confirms futuristic 0 Series EVs for Australia
Honda Australiahas confirmed plans to bring the futuristic 0 Series electric vehicle (EV) lineup to Australian showrooms, which will follow the launch of the brand's first EV Down Under in the second half of 2026. Speaking to media in Melbourne, including CarExpert, Honda Australia managing director Rob Thorp said the 0 Series EV range was being looked at among plans to launch its first EV in local showrooms. "Beyond 2026 and into 2027 … New products, new nameplates, new segments are what we'll be looking to [for sales growth]," said Mr Thorp. "We have a real premium plan to expand the product growth and the offering we have … within that, is the Honda 0 Series … we are intending to bring that to market." CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. It's a reverse of the previous stance from Honda Australia, which told CarExpert earlier this year it had no plans to bring 0 Series models here. Both Mr Thorp and Honda Australia CEO Jay Joseph started their current leadership roles on April 1, 2025. The 0 Series was first shown in a computer-animated digital concept form in 2024 – with sedan and people mover models previewed – before physical concept cars were revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States (US), in January. The two CES cars showed a 0 Series sedan alongside a "near production" 0 Series SUV, both due on sale in the US and Europe in 2026. When asked by CarExpert which of the 0 Series Honda Australia intends to offer here, Mr Thorp replied: "At the moment, we are looking at all of them – we haven't been able to lock in or confirm anything yet, but we want them all." "We want them all because it's going to be – they are going to be – the best of breed within the global Honda portfolio." "Timing and availability of the [0 Series] product is not yet confirmed, and we're working our way through that, but it is basically an innovation of technology all centred around a theme-like design concept and iconic nameplates." "The [0 Series] brand is going to sit within the Honda portfolio and those are the vehicles we intend to bring to market." While full details are yet to be released, Honda has confirmed the 0 Series will debut a new 'ASIMO' (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) software. It will also use artificial intelligence (AI) and LiDAR-based systems for advanced driver assist systems, which will include Level 3 semi-autonomous technology. Level 3 is not yet able to be used on Australian roads, with Tesla officially confirming testing its Full Self-Driving (FSD), a Level 2 system, on Australian roads earlier this year. Honda doesn't currently offer an EV in Australia, with the company instead focusing on expanding its hybrid lineup here. This hybrid expansion will continue, with the return of the Honda Prelude next year after a 25-year absence. Mr Thorp told media the local lineup will be 80 per cent hybrid once the Prelude arrives in mid-2026. While no Honda EVs have been introduced here yet, the Japanese brand has an array of different EVs for different markets. These include the Afeela 1 electric sedan (pictured, above) developed with Sony as a low-volume, luxury flagship, while it also showed the city-sized Super EV Concept at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Others include the Prologue for North America, based on a General Motors platform; the e:N1/e:Ny1 small SUV offered in markets like Europe and New Zealand; and kei cars for Japan like the N-Van e. Yet while the local arm is set to add EVs, the company recently pulled back from its 2030 target for 30 per cent of global sales to be EVs. It also cut 30 per cent off its previous 10 trillion yen ($103.1 billion) budget for EV development, focusing on hybrid powertrain technology instead. MORE: Everything Honda MORE: Honda's future EVs could be tuned to feel like an S2000 or NSX Content originally sourced from: Honda Australiahas confirmed plans to bring the futuristic 0 Series electric vehicle (EV) lineup to Australian showrooms, which will follow the launch of the brand's first EV Down Under in the second half of 2026. Speaking to media in Melbourne, including CarExpert, Honda Australia managing director Rob Thorp said the 0 Series EV range was being looked at among plans to launch its first EV in local showrooms. "Beyond 2026 and into 2027 … New products, new nameplates, new segments are what we'll be looking to [for sales growth]," said Mr Thorp. "We have a real premium plan to expand the product growth and the offering we have … within that, is the Honda 0 Series … we are intending to bring that to market." CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. It's a reverse of the previous stance from Honda Australia, which told CarExpert earlier this year it had no plans to bring 0 Series models here. Both Mr Thorp and Honda Australia CEO Jay Joseph started their current leadership roles on April 1, 2025. The 0 Series was first shown in a computer-animated digital concept form in 2024 – with sedan and people mover models previewed – before physical concept cars were revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States (US), in January. The two CES cars showed a 0 Series sedan alongside a "near production" 0 Series SUV, both due on sale in the US and Europe in 2026. When asked by CarExpert which of the 0 Series Honda Australia intends to offer here, Mr Thorp replied: "At the moment, we are looking at all of them – we haven't been able to lock in or confirm anything yet, but we want them all." "We want them all because it's going to be – they are going to be – the best of breed within the global Honda portfolio." "Timing and availability of the [0 Series] product is not yet confirmed, and we're working our way through that, but it is basically an innovation of technology all centred around a theme-like design concept and iconic nameplates." "The [0 Series] brand is going to sit within the Honda portfolio and those are the vehicles we intend to bring to market." While full details are yet to be released, Honda has confirmed the 0 Series will debut a new 'ASIMO' (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) software. It will also use artificial intelligence (AI) and LiDAR-based systems for advanced driver assist systems, which will include Level 3 semi-autonomous technology. Level 3 is not yet able to be used on Australian roads, with Tesla officially confirming testing its Full Self-Driving (FSD), a Level 2 system, on Australian roads earlier this year. Honda doesn't currently offer an EV in Australia, with the company instead focusing on expanding its hybrid lineup here. This hybrid expansion will continue, with the return of the Honda Prelude next year after a 25-year absence. Mr Thorp told media the local lineup will be 80 per cent hybrid once the Prelude arrives in mid-2026. While no Honda EVs have been introduced here yet, the Japanese brand has an array of different EVs for different markets. These include the Afeela 1 electric sedan (pictured, above) developed with Sony as a low-volume, luxury flagship, while it also showed the city-sized Super EV Concept at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Others include the Prologue for North America, based on a General Motors platform; the e:N1/e:Ny1 small SUV offered in markets like Europe and New Zealand; and kei cars for Japan like the N-Van e. Yet while the local arm is set to add EVs, the company recently pulled back from its 2030 target for 30 per cent of global sales to be EVs. It also cut 30 per cent off its previous 10 trillion yen ($103.1 billion) budget for EV development, focusing on hybrid powertrain technology instead. MORE: Everything Honda MORE: Honda's future EVs could be tuned to feel like an S2000 or NSX Content originally sourced from: Honda Australiahas confirmed plans to bring the futuristic 0 Series electric vehicle (EV) lineup to Australian showrooms, which will follow the launch of the brand's first EV Down Under in the second half of 2026. Speaking to media in Melbourne, including CarExpert, Honda Australia managing director Rob Thorp said the 0 Series EV range was being looked at among plans to launch its first EV in local showrooms. "Beyond 2026 and into 2027 … New products, new nameplates, new segments are what we'll be looking to [for sales growth]," said Mr Thorp. "We have a real premium plan to expand the product growth and the offering we have … within that, is the Honda 0 Series … we are intending to bring that to market." CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. It's a reverse of the previous stance from Honda Australia, which told CarExpert earlier this year it had no plans to bring 0 Series models here. Both Mr Thorp and Honda Australia CEO Jay Joseph started their current leadership roles on April 1, 2025. The 0 Series was first shown in a computer-animated digital concept form in 2024 – with sedan and people mover models previewed – before physical concept cars were revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States (US), in January. The two CES cars showed a 0 Series sedan alongside a "near production" 0 Series SUV, both due on sale in the US and Europe in 2026. When asked by CarExpert which of the 0 Series Honda Australia intends to offer here, Mr Thorp replied: "At the moment, we are looking at all of them – we haven't been able to lock in or confirm anything yet, but we want them all." "We want them all because it's going to be – they are going to be – the best of breed within the global Honda portfolio." "Timing and availability of the [0 Series] product is not yet confirmed, and we're working our way through that, but it is basically an innovation of technology all centred around a theme-like design concept and iconic nameplates." "The [0 Series] brand is going to sit within the Honda portfolio and those are the vehicles we intend to bring to market." While full details are yet to be released, Honda has confirmed the 0 Series will debut a new 'ASIMO' (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) software. It will also use artificial intelligence (AI) and LiDAR-based systems for advanced driver assist systems, which will include Level 3 semi-autonomous technology. Level 3 is not yet able to be used on Australian roads, with Tesla officially confirming testing its Full Self-Driving (FSD), a Level 2 system, on Australian roads earlier this year. Honda doesn't currently offer an EV in Australia, with the company instead focusing on expanding its hybrid lineup here. This hybrid expansion will continue, with the return of the Honda Prelude next year after a 25-year absence. Mr Thorp told media the local lineup will be 80 per cent hybrid once the Prelude arrives in mid-2026. While no Honda EVs have been introduced here yet, the Japanese brand has an array of different EVs for different markets. These include the Afeela 1 electric sedan (pictured, above) developed with Sony as a low-volume, luxury flagship, while it also showed the city-sized Super EV Concept at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Others include the Prologue for North America, based on a General Motors platform; the e:N1/e:Ny1 small SUV offered in markets like Europe and New Zealand; and kei cars for Japan like the N-Van e. Yet while the local arm is set to add EVs, the company recently pulled back from its 2030 target for 30 per cent of global sales to be EVs. It also cut 30 per cent off its previous 10 trillion yen ($103.1 billion) budget for EV development, focusing on hybrid powertrain technology instead. MORE: Everything Honda MORE: Honda's future EVs could be tuned to feel like an S2000 or NSX Content originally sourced from: Honda Australiahas confirmed plans to bring the futuristic 0 Series electric vehicle (EV) lineup to Australian showrooms, which will follow the launch of the brand's first EV Down Under in the second half of 2026. Speaking to media in Melbourne, including CarExpert, Honda Australia managing director Rob Thorp said the 0 Series EV range was being looked at among plans to launch its first EV in local showrooms. "Beyond 2026 and into 2027 … New products, new nameplates, new segments are what we'll be looking to [for sales growth]," said Mr Thorp. "We have a real premium plan to expand the product growth and the offering we have … within that, is the Honda 0 Series … we are intending to bring that to market." CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. It's a reverse of the previous stance from Honda Australia, which told CarExpert earlier this year it had no plans to bring 0 Series models here. Both Mr Thorp and Honda Australia CEO Jay Joseph started their current leadership roles on April 1, 2025. The 0 Series was first shown in a computer-animated digital concept form in 2024 – with sedan and people mover models previewed – before physical concept cars were revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States (US), in January. The two CES cars showed a 0 Series sedan alongside a "near production" 0 Series SUV, both due on sale in the US and Europe in 2026. When asked by CarExpert which of the 0 Series Honda Australia intends to offer here, Mr Thorp replied: "At the moment, we are looking at all of them – we haven't been able to lock in or confirm anything yet, but we want them all." "We want them all because it's going to be – they are going to be – the best of breed within the global Honda portfolio." "Timing and availability of the [0 Series] product is not yet confirmed, and we're working our way through that, but it is basically an innovation of technology all centred around a theme-like design concept and iconic nameplates." "The [0 Series] brand is going to sit within the Honda portfolio and those are the vehicles we intend to bring to market." While full details are yet to be released, Honda has confirmed the 0 Series will debut a new 'ASIMO' (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) software. It will also use artificial intelligence (AI) and LiDAR-based systems for advanced driver assist systems, which will include Level 3 semi-autonomous technology. Level 3 is not yet able to be used on Australian roads, with Tesla officially confirming testing its Full Self-Driving (FSD), a Level 2 system, on Australian roads earlier this year. Honda doesn't currently offer an EV in Australia, with the company instead focusing on expanding its hybrid lineup here. This hybrid expansion will continue, with the return of the Honda Prelude next year after a 25-year absence. Mr Thorp told media the local lineup will be 80 per cent hybrid once the Prelude arrives in mid-2026. While no Honda EVs have been introduced here yet, the Japanese brand has an array of different EVs for different markets. These include the Afeela 1 electric sedan (pictured, above) developed with Sony as a low-volume, luxury flagship, while it also showed the city-sized Super EV Concept at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. Others include the Prologue for North America, based on a General Motors platform; the e:N1/e:Ny1 small SUV offered in markets like Europe and New Zealand; and kei cars for Japan like the N-Van e. Yet while the local arm is set to add EVs, the company recently pulled back from its 2030 target for 30 per cent of global sales to be EVs. It also cut 30 per cent off its previous 10 trillion yen ($103.1 billion) budget for EV development, focusing on hybrid powertrain technology instead. MORE: Everything Honda MORE: Honda's future EVs could be tuned to feel like an S2000 or NSX Content originally sourced from:
Time of India
30-07-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
From back office to brain trust: Purpose, patents and profit are becoming the new metrics for GCCs as they mature
Global capability centres (GCCs, the tech & operations arms of MNCs) have helped power India's technology ascent for years now, but the cost-arbitrage model that lured multinationals here is past its sell-by date. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Indian hubs must now behave less like offshore centres or back-offices, and more like intellectual engines that invent, decide, and monetise. That was the consensus among leaders at the Nasscom-Times Techies GCC 2030 And Beyond conference in Bengaluru on Monday. Manu Saale, MD & CEO at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), illustrated the stakes with a story that began in 2018, when headquarters asked whether a car could read hand gestures. Bengaluru engineers seized the brief, trained neural networks to run on an edge device, and two years later were on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas flicking the sunroof and stereo on a concept saloon open and shut with nothing but a wave. 'There was one slide that mattered – Where does this magic come from? – and underneath it read 'MBRDI, Bengaluru',' Saale recalled, still delighted that India, not Stuttgart or Palo Alto, cracked the problem first. 'That is how you earn respect at headquarters – and how you keep it,' he said. SAP Labs India MD and Nasscom chair Sindhu Gangadharan offered another concrete case. Eighty percent of the code for SAP's Joule enterprise copilot, she said, is written in Bengaluru, where developers work shoulder-to-shoulder with global customers to refine queries that track inventory, chase leads, or calculate taxes in natural language. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now 'We're talking about taking innovations like Joule from India to the world,' she said, pointing out that a quarter of SAP's patents now originate locally. The lesson for newer entrants, she argued, is to nurture end-to-end product thinking – engineers who can design, commercialise and localise software, not merely code it. That demands earlier and deeper partnerships with universities so graduates arrive GCC-ready: steeped in IP law, data-driven design and platform economics as well as algorithms. All of the leaders said the most successful GCCs are the ones that are most tightly integrated with the enterprise; and that's also when the enterprise gets the most value from its GCC. Lalit Ahuja said simplicity is its best ally. The ANSR founder, who helps multinationals set up GCCs in India, recounted a conversation with the chief executive of a leading global company who had trouble wrapping his head around the concept of a GCC. His eureka moment came when Ahuja suggested treating the GCC as 'the 19th floor of your office' – just in another country. The company in question had an office on the 18th floor of a building and were contemplating expanding into the 19th floor. 'Hire people there as you would if you were expanding into a new floor, plug them into the same systems, obsess about the same customers, and watch culture do the rest,' he advised. The executive followed through – and the Bengaluru office is now literally nicknamed 'the 19th floor' inside the company. Ahuja's moral: don't over-engineer the set-up. Indian adaptability means new centres can 'just arrive', usually in as little as three months, borrow the battle scars of incumbents and leapfrog straight to innovation. Sirisha Voruganti, who runs British bank Lloyd's offshore global services, underscored how quickly autonomy for GCCs can deliver. Her team is leading the bank's push into digital identity, an area where Britain lags but India excels thanks to Aadhaar. 'We've invited Nandan Nilekani to brief our board on what a billion-scale ID system looks like,' she said, adding that Lloyd's chose India precisely because local engineers live the mass-authentication challenge daily. How to stay relevant What can the thousands of GCCs already in India, and the hundred or so added each year, do to stay on the front foot? The leaders sketched a few imperatives. ● Pick moon-shot problems that headquarters has not yet solved and deliver them end-to-end. Gesture recognition did more for Mercedes-Benz's perception of India than a decade of incremental tasks. ● Focus on revenue generation, commercialise IP. Filing patents is laudable; licensing them or embedding them in products is what puts India on the revenue map. Joint industry-academia labs and cross-sector forums can help accelerate that path from lab to ledger. Nasscom president Rajesh Nambiar noted that increasingly, GCC success is measured in revenue. Boards no longer ask how many heads a GCC employs but which product lines it owns and what percentage of sales those lines drive, he said. ● Integrate by design. Ahuja's 19th-floor metaphor suggests that cultural alignment and shared metrics matter more than physical proximity. When Indian engineers attend the same sprint reviews and read the same customer dashboards as colleagues abroad, they act – and are judged – as peers, not contractors. ● Cultivate leadership. Saale argued that India's decisive edge will be forged by the people who run the GCCs. 'The leadership factor in the whole game matters most. We need to get our leaders to lead differently, inspire differently and start sharing larger dreams with their teams about how they should see the world from Bengaluru or Pune,' he said. The best results will emerge when companies rotate managers across functions and geographies, reward risk-taking and make GCC stewardship a fast track to the C-suite. Ajay Vij, senior country MD for Accenture in India, said leadership was particularly important in today's volatile times.
Int'l Business Times
23-07-2025
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
Vivek Agrawal: Transforming Industry Search Experience Through AI And Engineering Excellence
In a digital economy, where customer experience and personalization are important, the technology enabling the e-commerce websites must not just be fast, but also wield the ability to foresee the user behavior, provide niche-related performance and achieve massive scale. Well-set in the center of such change in the digital processes of the industry is none other than Vivek Agrawal, a revolutionary digital operations leader whose contributions are felt throughout the entire e-commerce system. Having 18 years of experience in the field and a profound knowledge of the technical as well as management aspects of software engineering, Vivek now works at a top 3 US retailer as Senior Director of Software Engineering. The performance of his team of software and machine learning engineers is high enough, and the primary responsibility is operating the industry's Search Runtime Platform, which is a core system and processes hundreds of millions of requests daily with close to zero downtimes, a fact that reflects the excellence and scale of his leadership. Reimagining The Search Platform Probably the greatest contribution made by Vivek is the fact that he has completely reimagined the Search Platform in the industry. As search has become increasingly important to user satisfaction as well as to business results, he spearheaded a transformation starting at the ground level- redesigning teams, rearchitecting systems, and integrating high-quality artificial intelligence across the platform. This colossal task led to the integration and scalability of one coherent system that has since fueled a large portion of the company's online sales and transactional activity on marketplaces, all aimed at allowing customers to find whatever they need, be it groceries or general merchandise, within the convenience of one unified application called the 'Glass' project. His contribution in shaping this initiative stands as a shining example of what Wall Street and the broader business community are recognizing as an industry-leading, enterprise-wide transformation. GenAI To Exact Match: Innovation At The Core Vivek brings other factors into play, not just the dimension of company along with Vivek, introduced a revolutionary program, Search Experiences that used Generative AI to start its shopping journey. The functionality, making clear language understanding, able to answer vague or exploratory requests, was announced at the start of 2024 and immediately attracted attention in the industry, including both a demonstration on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and coverage in major media outlets like The Verge, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Vivek spearheaded the creation of the Exact Match Search Experience, which also radically enhanced the quality of core search results. He also led the initiative behind the generation and ranking of search filters using LLM which led to material gains in accuracy and usability of filters, a breakthrough in searching refinement among users. Engineering At The Intersection Of Intelligence And Efficiency Besides enhancing the experience of customers, Vivek has done a tremendous amount of work in enhancing machine learning and AI infrastructure in the industry. He was the leader of the development of a ML deployment framework that allows data scientists to shift between experimentation and production more effectively and in a demonstrably more cost-efficient manner. Vivek used a remote GPU-based model serving cleverly which significantly minimized the reliance on expensive hardware and gingered up a cost burden that was valued in millions of dollars each year thus a score on both performance and cost unresponsiveness. Driving Business Impact With Engineering Vision The business outcomes of the endeavors of Vivek are unquestionable. Billions of annualized revenue have been unlocked through his work to modularize the platform, launch flexible multi-stack experiences and integrate omni-channel capabilities across industry digital storefronts. Operationally, his optimization efforts have enhanced the throughput of systems by a large measure and lowered latency by a significant scale. Moreover, his efforts were able to reduce the percentage of out of stocks in search by a big margin, where customers only get what is correct and in stock which is an important element in conversion and customer satisfaction. The Future: Tech-Driven, Customer-Focused The story of Vivek Agrawal is a good testament about how technical expertise, strategic thought and incessant execution can result in a transformative process. It is not in providing the optimum solution to millions of customers, to drive them to their desired product sooner or helping organizations open up new avenues of businesses through clever systems that come at the place where he works. In a rapidly changing world of digital commerce, not only are leaders in the field, such as Vivek, keeping up with the changes; they are also shaping the future.
Auto Blog
04-07-2025
- Automotive
- Auto Blog
2027 BMW M5 LCI Spied With Cleaner Neue Klasse Looks
By signing up I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . You may unsubscribe from email communication at anytime. 2027 BMW M5 Will Move The Game Forward Our spies on the Old Continent have caught the facelift of the G90 BMW M5, and they tell us to expect plenty of changes, and not just on the surface. The current super sedan and its wagon sibling were only introduced a year ago, but BMW is not one to withhold new technology or even new design cues for future generations. Instead, the M5's mid-cycle update, or Life Cycle Impulse, as BMW calls it, will bring with it a look inspired by the Vision Neue Klasse concept and an interior with BMW's new Panoramic iDrive system, which was previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of the year. Previous Pause Next Unmute 0:00 / 0:10 Full screen 2026 Audi A6 Avant debuts to fight BMW 5 Series Touring Watch More Similar Styling Across All Upcoming Bimmers The new M5 will change little about its lower front and rear fascias, but the top half of each end of the car will gain completely new lighting units. At the front, the trademark kidney grilles will frame the width of the car, with Iconic Glow illumination giving the M5 a distinctive nighttime signature. Moving backward, the hood may be slightly massaged, but the wing mirrors seem unchanged, as do most of the other body lines, including the door panels and side skirts. Interestingly, however, the roof does not appear to be made of carbon fiber or BMW's incoming plant-based alternative, and we don't see a recess down its spine as on the current M5. Recent leaks reveal that the next-generation M3 is unlikely to get a composite roof either, but perhaps BMW wants to reserve that for Competition models, as was once the case. 2027 BMW M5 May Be Ridiculously Expensive At the back of the M5 LCI, the new taillight clusters are still placeholder units that won't be offered to customers, but their shape indicates that they won't deviate much from the current design. Future M cars are expected to have unique headlight graphics (and possibly colors), so we expect something similar at the rear. Then again, a quad-exit exhaust with a massive diffuser panel may be enough. We're not expecting much in the way of changes under the hood. The 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 hybrid powertrain will carry over, and our spies say we should not expect any increases in output (a combined 717 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque, for the record). A debut will happen sometime in 2026, possibly near the end of the year. Unfortunately, even though the M5 was just hit with a price increase for the 2026 model year, our spies say the facelift will cost around €150,000, or over $176,000. That's more than 50 grand pricier than the M5 is today, so we hope BMW can justify the extra outlay. Less weight, perhaps? We can only hope… Autoblog Newsletter Autoblog brings you car news; expert reviews and exciting pictures and video. Research and compare vehicles, too. Sign up or sign in with Google Facebook Microsoft Apple By signing up I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . You may unsubscribe from email communication at anytime. About the Author Sebastian Cenizo View Profile
