Claude 3 Ignites Cloud Wars

Claude 3 sets the stage on fire, turning the cloud space into a dance battle of sorts. While Microsoft initially made Google dance, now Google and Amazon are making Microsoft sweat it out by integrating Anthropic's Claude 3 into their AI service offerings, namely Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock. This development increases the pressure on OpenAI to release GPT-5, putting Microsoft Azure in a quandary.

OpenAI is all about priorities. However, it seems distracted at the moment with Elon Musk suing the company, accusing it of deviating from its original mission and becoming a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft.?

The strongest model, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, outperformed GPT-4 on common benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval. Also, Claude 3 Sonnet, meant specifically for enterprise workloads, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and in private preview on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Model Garden—with Opus and Haiku coming soon to both.?

Many believe Claude 3 has reached AGI because of its ability to delight users. That also explains why the customer-obsessed Amazon invested $4 billion, alongside Google investing $2 billion in the AI startup. It is also interesting to see how the two cloud majors are joining hands to support OpenAI rivals and give Microsoft Azure a tough competition.?

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Fueling India’s Hyperscaler Ambitions

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, has been investing heavily in AI. Last year, the company committed to investing $1 billion to advance its AI innovators program, which earlier had an allocation of $100 million. Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), which is the world’s leading provider of supercomputers, has also been accelerating its commitment to data centres and cloud infrastructure with a special focus on India.?

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Upping India’s UPI Growth

According to the National Payments Corporation of India, UPI recorded a staggering 12.02 billion transactions in December 2023 – its highest to date. India has become an undisputed global leader, riding on the sheer volume of daily and monthly payments made as UPI transactions grew 147%, catapulting from INR 92 crore in 2017 to INR 8,375 crore in 2023. Behind this growth is a cutting-edge, real-time NoSQL database. Discover how this is revolutionising India's payment systems. Read on to find out more.

Ramco Systems Hiring?

Earlier this month, leading ERP software solutions provider Ramco Systems introduced Ramco Payce, an AI-powered platform-driven payroll software to improve business payroll management. The company told AIM that it has ten open positions for data scientists and ML engineers.?

Interested candidates can learn about the interview process, and apply here.?