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Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

As AI training datasets and model weights grow exponentially, durable cold storage becomes critical infrastructure. Project Silica's glass-based encoding offers orders of magnitude better longevity and cost efficiency than current tape/disk solutions—a foundational layer for scaling AI compute economics.

Project Silica encodes data in borosilicate glass

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OpenAI is making a strategic geographic expansion into India with localized infrastructure and enterprise offerings, signaling a major shift in how AI companies are approaching emerging markets beyond the US and EU. This move directly impacts how multinational enterprises will deploy AI at scale in one of the world's largest economies.

OpenAI launches India-specific initiative

Google expands Gemini's app-layer capabilities beyond text and images into generative audio, democratizing music creation and signaling aggressive competition in the multimodal AI product space.

Lyria 3 model integrated into Gemini app