Weekly Tech Ricap: Deepsek shook Ae World, openi roll out O 3-Mune, WhatsApp Thwarts paragon attack and more. Mint

With so many reports this week, it can be difficult to monitor some of the biggest developments. To keep readers updated, we have prepared a list of top technical stories of the week. In the Tech Ricap of this week: Apple announced a plan to bring Apple Intelligence to India in April, Deepsek shook AI World, WhatsApp Thwarts Spaiware Attack and more.

Top Technical News of the week:

1) Deepsek takes the world from the storm:

While the R1 and V3 language models of Deepsek are available in the US and other global markets from mid -January, the AI ​​company finally grabbed the spotlight this week when it was the most downloaded app on Google Play Store and Apple App Store Openai’s chatgpt as the form in many countries around the world.

The sudden growth of Deepsek has made a dent in claims by various AI companies that China is behind the US in the race for artificial intelligence. In addition, the low-cost model of the lampsac has also broken the continuous perception that the development of high-end, large-scale language models requires computing power and increasing amounts of capital.

Deepsek claims that its V3 model costs around $ 5.6 million and were trained on the old Nvidia H800 GPU. Although there is some doubt whether Deepsek is telling the truth about this figure, the AI ​​model of Chinese Startups continues to be much lower price compared to its Western contestants.

2) WhatsApp claims that it spoils a paragon attack:

WhatsApp announced this week that it had disrupted a hacking campaign associated with Israeli spyware company Paragon. The purpose of the campaign was to hack the phone of about 90 people, which included journalist and other members of the civil society.

According to a report by Reuters, Paragon sells high-end monitoring software to government customers and promotes its services as a way to fight crime and protect national security.

3) The government reduces custom duty on parts involved in mobile construction:

During her 8th budget speech on Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitarman on some parts involved in the manufacture of mobile phones including camera module, connectors, USB cables, fingerprint readers, wired headsets and more, including raw materials used in the manufacture of mobile phones. The discount announced, which is more, which is used raw materials, which is more, which was earlier taxed at 2.5%, will be exempted from customs. The move is likely to help foreign companies like Apple and Xiaomi in local construction efforts.

4) Openai roll out o3-mini logic model:

After previewing the O3-Min Reasoning model during the 12-day ship-MAS event in December, Openai is finally releasing new and paid users to new models. Openai’s first ‘free’ Reasoning model comes as the company faces China’s growing competition from the lampsac of China, whose R1 Reasoning model has been freely available since its global start in early January.

Openai says its new O3-Mini model has been adapted for tasks like maths, coding and science, and mostly matches the performance of O1 in logic and assessment tests, while with “more accurate and clear answer” The O1-Min better better.

5) Apple Intelligence is coming to India in April:

Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Tech giants in Cupertino will roll out Apple Intelligence in a local English version for users in India and many other countries. While Apple Intelligence is already available in India for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro users, they had to go to settings and convert their default language into English (US). After a new iOS 18 update in April, the eligible iPhone users will possibly be able to reach AIO AI features of Apple in iOS 18 without changing their default language settings.

Speaking during an earning call on Thursday, Cook said, “In April, we are bringing Apple Intelligence in more languages ​​including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese, as well as localized English Singapore and India too. ,