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OpenAI said its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, outperformed Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 systems across several effi...
27/08/2026

OpenAI said its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, outperformed Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 systems across several efficiency and latency measures, as the company prepares to deploy its own processors by the end of 2026.

Tests using GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1 670B and Kimi K2.5 1T found that Jalapeño delivered 1.5 to 1.9 times as much inference throughput per watt at peak performance, according to OpenAI. End-to-end latency was about 41% to 72% lower, while performance on highly interactive workloads was 2.1 to 4.1 times as high.

For GPT-OSS 120B, Jalapeño produced about 1.9 times the peak throughput per watt of NVIDIA’s GB200. It delivered about 1.7 times as much as Nvidia’s GB300 when running DeepSeek R1 and 1.5 times as much with Kimi K2.5.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/openai-says-jalapeno-beats-nvidia-systems-in-inference-tests/

AM Intelligence has placed a binding order for about 9,000 of Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin graphics processors for an ...
27/08/2026

AM Intelligence has placed a binding order for about 9,000 of Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin graphics processors for an artificial intelligence facility in Hyderabad, marking one of India’s largest announced purchases of advanced AI computing hardware.

The processors will be installed through Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems and are scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2027, AM Intelligence said on Tuesday, 25 August.

The deployment will support the first 30 megawatts of computing capacity at the Hyderabad facility, which the company expects to become one of Asia’s earliest large-scale clusters based on Nvidia’s Rubin architecture.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/am-intelligence-orders-9000-nvidia-rubin-gpus-for-hyderabad-ai-factory/

Tata Consultancy Services wants at least 1% of its workforce in forward-deployed engineering roles. Infosys plans to hir...
27/08/2026

Tata Consultancy Services wants at least 1% of its workforce in forward-deployed engineering roles. Infosys plans to hire 6,000 “frontier engineers.” LTM is certifying more than 1,000 engineers, including FDEs, while Tredence is building a 200-person pool.

India’s IT industry has spent decades training people at scale. The question now is whether FDEs will change how client work gets done or simply give an established role a fashionable new name.

MIT Sloan Management Review India’s Shivani Tiwari spoke with industry leaders about what companies are building behind the headline numbers.

Shub Bhowmick, co-founder and chief executive of Tredence Inc., defines the role through the problems it is meant to solve. “FDEs partner with customers to solve their most strategic business challenges,” he said.

Evidence on the returns has yet to catch up with the hiring plans. Manish Mohta, managing director of Learning Spiral Ltd., said it is “too early to declare the advantages in deployment time and ROI” without evidence from customer projects.

Maya Nair, executive director at Grafton Recruitment, makes the case in organizational terms. “Put senior expertise directly into the ex*****on team and remove the layers in between. Decisions come faster, and ownership is clearer,” she said.

Abhijeet Kate, co-founder and principal consultant at digiCloud Solutions Pvt Ltd, sees plenty of work at the point where new AI tools meet existing technology. “Enterprises increasingly use several AI models alongside old applications, cloud platforms and proprietary systems,” he said.

Headcount alone says little about whether the model will pay. A more useful question is what remains when an FDE engagement ends. Does it leave behind something the company can use again, or another one-off client project?

Venk Korla, global chief executive of HGS, does not use the FDE title. His AI engineers, solution architects and change teams already work this way.

“The real advantage isn’t so much the label. It’s more about the way of working.”

https://mitsloanindia.com/article/indian-its-fde-bet-will-not-be-proven-by-headcount/

SpaceX plans to put Nvidia’s next-generation AI computing hardware into orbit in late 2027, taking an early step toward ...
25/08/2026

SpaceX plans to put Nvidia’s next-generation AI computing hardware into orbit in late 2027, taking an early step toward running data-center infrastructure in space.

Chief Executive Elon Musk said SpaceX and Nvidia have designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch in the fourth quarter of 2027, with a larger deployment planned for 2028.

Nvidia separately said SpaceXAI’s first-generation Starmind AI satellite will be based on an optimized version of its Vera Rubin rack-scale architecture.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/spacex-plans-2027-launch-of-orbital-ai-system-with-nvidia/

Porsche has committed €1.25 billion ($1.46 billion) over five years to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) under an agre...
25/08/2026

Porsche has committed €1.25 billion ($1.46 billion) over five years to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) under an agreement to expand the use of artificial intelligence across the German automaker.

Under the wider arrangement, TCS will acquire Porsche’s management and IT consultancy MHP at an enterprise value of €320 million ($373 million), the companies announced on Monday, August 24. The transaction requires regulatory and competition approvals and is expected to close within three to four months.

TCS will also establish an AI Mobility Centre of Excellence for Porsche. Its work will cover engineering, manufacturing, operations and customer experience, as well as automotive technology and software-defined mobility platforms.

The acquisition gives TCS a larger foothold in Germany and the European automotive market at a time when Indian IT firms are under pressure to show that AI can generate new revenue rather than simply reduce traditional outsourcing work.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/porsche-signs-1-46-billion-ai-deal-with-tcs/

Hiring managers must stop looking for the perfect resume and start looking for people who are a good fit for the role. H...
25/08/2026

Hiring managers must stop looking for the perfect resume and start looking for people who are a good fit for the role.

Having an opportunity mindset means hiring candidates who are good enough to succeed and then developing them to become great. Learn why, even in the current hiring recession, this approach makes sense.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/the-power-of-opportunity-mindset-in-hiring/

Mahindra Truck and Bus has rolled out the BLAZO i-TRK, a heavy commercial vehicle that uses artificial intelligence to a...
25/08/2026

Mahindra Truck and Bus has rolled out the BLAZO i-TRK, a heavy commercial vehicle that uses artificial intelligence to automatically adjust driving modes based on road conditions, payload and operating requirements.

The patented iFuelSmart system is intended to reduce reliance on drivers manually changing modes. Mahindra describes it as India’s first AI-enabled automatic drive mode for heavy commercial vehicles.

Mahindra Group says the truck can deliver up to 10% better fuel efficiency.

The company attributes the improvement to a wider package that also includes its TurboMAXX turbocharger and an OptiFuel compressor designed to reduce power losses. It has not separated the savings produced by iFuelSmart or disclosed detailed testing methodology.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/mahindra-adds-ai-drive-mode-to-new-heavy-truck/

Google is expanding its custom-chip supply chain, bringing Marvell Technology into the development of processors and sup...
21/08/2026

Google is expanding its custom-chip supply chain, bringing Marvell Technology into the development of processors and supporting hardware for its artificial intelligence infrastructure while securing warrants to buy nearly 59 million Marvell shares.

Under the agreement, Google can buy up to 58.97 million shares at $206.58 each. Exercising the full allotment would cost about $12.18 billion and could make Google Marvell’s fifth-largest shareholder, according to Reuters.

Most of the warrants are tied to Google’s purchases. About 1.36 million shares will vest quarterly during the first year. The remaining 57.61 million will vest in 240 equal tranches through fiscal 2033, with one tranche released for every $500 million in qualifying revenue. Full vesting would therefore require $120 billion in revenue, but that amount is not guaranteed.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/google-taps-marvell-for-custom-ai-chips/

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is reviewing rules for SME public offerings and preparing guidelines t...
21/08/2026

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is reviewing rules for SME public offerings and preparing guidelines that will hold financial firms responsible for the artificial intelligence systems they use, including tools supplied by outside vendors.

Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the SME review would seek to make fundraising easier for genuine companies without weakening investor protection.

Market-making requirements were adding to IPO costs for smaller businesses, he said at Ficci’s 23rd Annual Capital Markets Conference in Mumbai on Wednesday, August 19.

“A comprehensive review is underway,” Pandey said, according to Reuters.
https://mitsloanindia.com/article/sebi-plans-sme-reset-ai-accountability-rules/

Bengaluru-based Murf AI has released Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model aimed at companies deploying large volumes of auto...
21/08/2026

Bengaluru-based Murf AI has released Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model aimed at companies deploying large volumes of automated voice interactions, entering a market led by firms including ElevenLabs and OpenAI.

Falcon 2 became publicly available on August 20 after a limited rollout to selected customers.

On Artificial Analysis’s listener-rated naturalness benchmark, Falcon 2 scored above OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime-2 and ElevenLabs’ Flash model, although it trailed ElevenLabs v3.

Murf charges $0.01 per minute of generated speech. ElevenLabs lists its Flash and Turbo models at about $0.05 per minute. On that basis, one million minutes would cost about $10,000 with Falcon 2 and $50,000 with ElevenLabs.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/murf-ai-launches-low-cost-voice-model-falcon-2/

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