Cloud computing has come a long way, and it’s going to be used very differently for the next generation than it was when it first took root 20 years ago. As the race to automate software development heats up between OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI frontrunners, a quieter pressure point is brewing: cloud infrastructure. Recently […]

Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. “That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at […]

About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate text but couldn’t “see.” Today, that divide is rapidly disappearing. Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, allowing them to interpret images and explaining them […]

As companies grapple with moving Generative AI projects from experimentation to productionising – many businesses remain stuck in pilot mode. As our recent research highlights, 92% of organisations are concerned that GenAI pilots are accelerating without first tackling fundamental data issues. Even more telling: 67% have been unable to scale even half of their pilots […]

Kuljesh Puri is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media & Technology at Persistent Systems. He brings over 26 years of experience across the software, telecom, and semiconductor industries, along with extensive international exposure and a passion for transformation. Before joining Persistent, Kuljesh headed the Telecom Product Engineering portfolio at Tech Mahindra. […]

A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of […]

Have you ever found yourself with a song and a vision but have no clue how to bring them together visually without burning through your savings or learning complex editing software? You have music you’re proud of, but no idea how to turn that into something people can see and feel. That’s what led me […]

In April 2025, OpenAI introduced its most advanced models to date, o3 and o4-mini. These models represent a major step forward in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering new capabilities in visual analysis and coding support. With their strong reasoning skills and ability to work with both text and images, o3 and o4-mini can […]