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“You can get help with even your toughest questions. You can ask anything on your mind and get a helpful AI-powered response with the ability to go further with follow-up questions and helpful web links," Stein writes.
The feature is currently available by-invitation to Google One AI Premium subscribers. Startup rivals such as Perplexity have already been offering such features for free, while requiring a free sign up and paid subscriptions for access to more advanced features that use AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
“India’s smartphone market faces a slowdown as shipments drop 9.7 percent YoY in January 2025," IDC analysts wrote in their post. Some 11.1 million smartphones were shipped in India in January. Despite new premium and mid-range launches, weak consumer demand and surplus inventory from late 2024 led to a market contraction, according to them.
Apple improved its India market share from 9.2 percent in January 2024 to 11.4 percent in January 2025, according to IDC.
Tata Electronics’ semiconductor fab in Dholera was announced in February 2024, with a total investment of about Rs91,000 crore with a capacity of 50,000 wafer-starts per month (WSPM). The Government of India, through the India Semiconductor Mission, has committed 50 percent fiscal support on a pari-passu basis for eligible project costs, according to the press release.
Tata Group is partnering Taiwan"s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation for this project as the technology provider. Some 20,000 jobs are expected to be created from it.
Much of the Rs76,000 crore outlay under ‘ISM 1.0’ has been spent and preparation is on to launch ISM 2.0, according to the report. A second proposal likely to be approved soon is from Tarq Semiconductors, part of the Hiranandani Group, for a fabrication unit, also in Noida, reportedly with an investment of Rs27,000 crore.
The round was co-led by Beams Fintech Fund, Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and insurer BNP Paribas Cardif through its insurtech fund managed by European investment major Eurazeo.
Founded in 2017 by Ankit Agrawal, Gurugram-based InsuranceDekho has emerged as a leading tech-led insurance distribution platform to simplify buying, selling, and claims process. To date, InsuranceDekho has served over 10.2 million customers nationwide, with 21 new policies issued every minute on its platform, according to the press release.
First Published: Mar 06, 2025, 12:29
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