Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week

1-India’s plan of 3 chip plants over $15 billion

My first story is about India and the country approved 3 semiconductor plants with a cost of over USD15 billion. The reason behind the decision is to become a ?chip hub on the lines of the U.S., Taiwan and South Korea. “Within a very short time, India Semiconductor Mission has achieved four big successes. With these units, the semiconductor ecosystem will get established in India,” the government of India announced in a press statement.

Details of the projects

Tata Electronics will partner Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to build one of the fabrication plants in Dholera, Gujarat, with an investment of around $11 billion. The plant will focus on 28 nm technology to be used in automobiles, consumer electronics and defense..

Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt Ltd will build the second plant in Morigaon, Assam, with an investment of?$3.26 billion to develop chips for automotive, EVs and consumer electronics segments.

CG Power, in partnership with Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corporation and Thailand’s Stars Microelectronics will construct the third factory in Sanand, Gujarat, specializing in chips for consumer, industrial, automotive and power applications, with a cost of nearly $1 billion.

All projects to commence in 100 days, providing 20,000 advanced technology jobs and about 60,000 indirect jobs.

2-Anthropic announced Claude 3, the most powerful chatbot so far

AI company Anthropic , backed by 谷歌 , 亚马逊 , Salesforce and other tech companies, released its so-called Claude 3 model family, which includes Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus. Anthropic claims the new Claude 3 is most powerful chatbot so far.

Claude 3 can summarize up to about 150,000 words, compared to ChatGPT’s ability to summarize about 3,000. Let me note that Anthropic also allows to upload image and documents for the first time.

Claude 3 Opus beats ChatGPT 4 and Gemini Ultra

The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed Open AI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, such as undergraduate level knowledge, graduate level reasoning and basic mathematics.

The other models, Sonnet and Haiku, are more compact and less expensive than Opus. Sonnet and Opus are available in 159 countries, while Haiku will be coming soon, according to Anthropic.

3-AWS open data centers in Saudi Arabia, costing over $5 billion

亚马逊 's cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , announced it is to launch data centers in Saudi Arabia in 2026 and plans to invest more than $5.3 billion.

The new data centers will help customers to securely store content and run workloads while offering higher speed for its users.Let me emphasize? that AWS said customers in the region that use AWS to run workloads include Saudi Telecom Company Seera Holding??and Mobily.

On the other hand, last month, the head of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) pitched the country as a future hub for AI activity outside the United States, underlining its energy resources and funding capacity.

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