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Indian Companies Bullish on Long-Term AI Investments; 76% Surveyed Firms Achieved ROI-Driven Results: IBM Study

A research study commissioned by computing giant IBM revealed on Wednesday that most Indian companies made significant progress in executing their AI strategies last year.

The study surveyed over 2,000 IT decision-makers worldwide, 224 of whom were from India. Among the ones surveyed in the country, 87% reported progress in their AI strategy, and 76% revealed that they had achieved results driven by return on investment (ROI).

About 89% of the Indian respondents expressed their companies have started more than 10 AI pilots in the last year. Furthermore, 93% of the Indian respondents expressed they will increase their AI investments this year.

The majority of them reported looking for open-source solutions, and 48% revealed that more than half of the AI solutions being used are based on open-source technologies.

Among the companies that are yet to achieve ROI-driven results from AI projects, 33% expect to see savings within the next 12 months, and all of them believe they will achieve a positive ROI within three years.

Only 1% of the surveyed Indian respondents revealed that their AI strategy had not made progress.

The surveyed Indian companies revealed that they are focusing their AI investments this year on IT operations, software coding, and data quality management.

The detailed study from IBM, outlining the findings from multiple countries worldwide, can be found here.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke at the AI Action Summit in Paris, where he expressed that India leads in AI adoption. , India has one of the world’s largest AI talent pools.

“India is building its own large language model. Considering our diversity, we also have a unique public-private partnership model for pooling resources like computing power,” he added. In this year’s Budget, the government allocated ₹2,000 crore for the IndiaAI mission – nearly a fifth of the scheme’s ₹10,370 crore presented last year.

Moreover, AIM lately reported that Indian companies and startups are increasingly using AI-enabled coding tools. Although companies were initially hesitant to adopt such tools, they are now leaning toward them due to their benefits.

Furthermore, a recent survey by GitHub revealed that 56% of Indian developers are using AI tools to help them boost their chances for employment owing to the skills they develop. Moreover, around 80% of them believe AI tools have improved code quality.

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iPhone users just got access to Gemini's Deep Research - how to try it

iPhone clients can now tap into Google's Deep Research agent to research a topic on their behalf. Added to the Gemini website in December and to the Android app last month, the tool is now making its way to the iPhone version. Be aware, though, that Deep Research is available only to Gemini Advanced clients who pay $20 a month for the subscription.

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Deep Research is Gemini's first agent, a new breed of AI bots that can perform tasks on their own. Submit your request or question, and the agent browses the web independently without you having to direct or manage it each step of the way.

When you submit a prompt with a specific question or request, Gemini delivers the standard type of AI-generated information. Want more? Tell it to turn to Deep Research. After scouring the web for more data, Gemini provides you with a full and comprehensive investigation, listing all the information it consulted.

Next, type or speak your query. In my case, I asked it for advice on health insurance plans for freelance contractors.

In response, Gemini hints at a plan for tackling your topic. You can edit that plan and tell the AI what changes you'd like to see. Gemini then presents you with an updated plan. If you like the plan, tap the "Start Research" button to send the AI on its way around the web.

Depending on the complexity of the topic and how many websites are researched, you'll likely have to wait at least a few minutes for the full study. At that point, tap the "Open" button for the study to read and review it.

The reports I received were well-organized and formatted with text, tables, and bullet points to make them easy to read. A list of all the researched websites appears at the bottom.

From the study, you can share it with someone else, open it in Google Docs, or select all the text. The conversation is saved to your chat history, so you can access the study at any time in the future.

You're able to kick off another request while one is already running, though Google limits how many you can run at the same time. You're also limited in the number of requests you can submit per day. But you'll be told if you're bumping up against the quota.

If you're on the fence about shelling out the $20 a month for a Gemini Advanced subscription, Google offers other perks beyond Deep Research. With this plan, you also score 2TB of storage, Google Photos editing aspects, 10% back in Google Store rewards, Google Meet premium video calling aspects, and Gemini for Workspace.

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‘We’d Like to Work With China,’ says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with British media outlet Sky News on Tuesday that the business would like to work with China. Altman made the comment when he was asked if he was worried about the country’s progress.

However, responding to a question about whether the US would let him do that, Altman expressed, “I know that for sure, no. Should we try as hard as we can? Absolutely, yes.”.

Altman’s statement follows the shockwave created by DeepSeek in the AI ecosystem, which has sparked concerns among several industry leaders who fear China’s rise.

in recent times, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, stated, “If we can close [export control loopholes] fast enough, we may be able to prevent China from getting millions of chips, increasing the likelihood of a unipolar world with the US ahead.”.

Similarly, in an interview with CNBC at the Davos World Economic Forum 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella expressed, “We should take the development of China very seriously.”.

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla echoed the industry’s strongest fear. In a blog post, he earlier expressed, “We may have to worry about sentient AI destroying humanity, but the risk of an asteroid hitting the Earth or a pandemic also exists. But the risk of China destroying our system is significantly larger, in my opinion.”.

Altman’s take on China seems refreshing, to say the least.

In a podcast with The Times on Monday, while speaking about China’s DeepSeek, Altman stated, “They did some nice work. I think there’s also some nice pieces of product work like showing the chain of thought.” He went on to praise the research behind DeepSeek’s model, although he feels “it isn’t a big upgrade” to the ecosystem.

OpenAI reportedly has evidence that DeepSeek trained on its models and is investigating this with Microsoft. However, Altman not long ago revealed that the corporation does not plan to sue DeepSeek right now.

In the same interview with Sky News, Altman added, “I think we should probably open source somewhat more.”.

In a Reddit ‘ask-me-anything’ (AMA) session, he noted, “I personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open-source strategy.”.

This comes at a time when industry leaders are rooting for the development of more open-source models, owing to DeepSeek’s recent success.

Meanwhile, Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist, stated in an interview, “I think in the war of open versus closed, open has won.”.

Palihapitiya believes OpenAI is now considering to open source what they’re doing in some way.

That mentioned, OpenAI has released multiple open-source models and tools in the past. The organization’s second iteration of the GPT model was also made available for open-source use.

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