Saritha Rai
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Asia AI reporter for Bloomberg @technology @business covering AI in India,China, S Korea, Japan...Views mine.Priors @Forbes @NYTimes Tips: [email protected]
Bangalore, INDIA
Joined November 2010
Some professional news! Bloomberg has named me Asia AI reporter to cover startups, innovation, big enterprises, regulation & entire gamut of AI in India, China, Japan, S Korea... Do share this in your AI circles as I broaden my networks around Asia. Leads SRai33@bloomberg.net
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The AI showdown: How the US and China stack up Saritha Rai @SarithaRai and Seth Fiegerman @sfiegerman report for Bloomberg https://t.co/ytXefVLN7P
theprint.in
China’s ascendance has set off alarm bells in Silicon Valley and Washington. The outcome of this contest may determine which country is the true technological superpower of the 21st century.
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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data https://t.co/pUmKiFxRlh
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China is exporting Huawei chips + DeepSeek models to the Global South. If we don’t make it just as easy to export the American AI stack, we will forfeit this technology race in large parts of the world. https://t.co/r7u2WT6WvC
bloomberg.com
By making AI cheaper and less power-hungry, DeepSeek has put the technology within reach of millions of people.
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Chinese AI models are popular in Africa. From @SarithaRai & co at Bloomberg: https://t.co/rosvalZndS
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been thinkin on this longer than i ever said out loud the last weeks i’ve been postin hard tryin to outrun a kinda emptiness i couldn’t shake truth is this place gave me a lot but it also took a bite outta me and i ain’t been feelin whole here for a while so i figure it’s time
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa & Chinese AI's inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data & loads of soft power @business @LoniPrinsloo1 @HelenNyambura (gift link: free to read until Oct 30) https://t.co/5hvnphlADV
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Emirates AI influential Sheikh Tahnoon designed his new seaside, Japanese style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 Dubai by my colleague Omar El Chmouri and I gift link https://t.co/FSST9H48FZ
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Yay, us.
.@uclaanderson presents the 2025 Loeb Award for the visual storytelling category to: “AI Data Centers Wreak Havoc on Energy Grids and Power Quality” From: Bloomberg News #loebawards
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.@uclaanderson presents the 2025 Loeb Award for the visual storytelling category to: “AI Data Centers Wreak Havoc on Energy Grids and Power Quality” From: Bloomberg News #loebawards
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@SarithaRai @Leonardonclt @Joshsaul97 @dinabass @sfiegerman @andretartar @ianmking @jenniduggan @chlowhitaker @milliemun Congratulations Saritha! Truly outstanding work! On behalf of @uclaanderson, our preliminary and final judges, we look forward to celebrating you, your team, and all the finalists tonight! #loebawards
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📢A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues on AI data centers devastating energy grids is a Gerald Loeb Awards finalist! @Leonardonclt @Joshsaul97 @dinabass @sfiegerman @andretartar @ianmking @jenniduggan @chlowhitaker @milliemun
“AI Data Centers Wreak Havoc on Energy Grids and Power Quality” From: Bloomberg News By: Leonardo Nicoletti, Josh Saul, Naureen S. Malik, Andre Tartar, Saritha Rai, Dina Bass, Ian King, Jennifer Duggan, Seth Fiegerman, Chloe Whiteaker and Millie Munshi
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Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15) https://t.co/g4nA7xkKfA
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DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7) https://t.co/EeZFpsm8bA
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DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools (@saritharai / Bloomberg) https://t.co/LKBSQDhUbA
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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools
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A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress @business (Gift link: free to read until Sept 30) https://t.co/HvwybrC1aD
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A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials @business @AmberTongPW Gift link (free to read until Sept 26) https://t.co/cRivMC8Jzi
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Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad citing competitive risks and threat to US national security @business (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12) https://t.co/5tSbXxSSVd
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New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via @business (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12) https://t.co/hUq88bGEnc
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DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI
bloomberg.com
DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology, according to people familiar...
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Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multi-step actions with little direction as well as learn and improve, set for a Q4 debut (@saritharai / Bloomberg) https://t.co/5ln78l3FYv
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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multistep actions with little human intervention and can learn and improve, coming in Q4
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My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis' emergence as nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read till Sept 05) https://t.co/EfSxyOrnC8
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