Ten key events and trends to watch out for in 2024: Part 1
Lupin, Zydus, and Sun Pharma are reportedly in the process of developing anti-obesity drugs. The “AI spring" got all the more exciting in 2023 as OpenAI's ChatGPT became a household name. There’s no stopping this fast-accelerating boom in 2024.
The launch of other generative AI tools, especially Google's Bard, has already challenged the monopoly of OpenAI in such systems. Both models offer a competitive edge over the other, but ChatGPT has, so far, enjoyed the first mover's advantage. Bard is more accessible as it is available in 40 languages across 230 countries and territories, while ChatGPT offers services in 188 countries and nine languages.
Bard also has better access to updated information. ChatGPT, on the other hand, is more creative and excels at generating customized text such as emails, poems, and business plans for its users. The coming year could see Google go all-out in this race.
It is already in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, a chatbot startup, Reuters reported in November. After a heartbreaking defeat in the final match of the men’s cricket world cup this year, India has a rare chance to bring not one, but two cups home in 2024. Both the men’s and women’s tournaments, in the Twenty20 format, are lined up—the former from 4 to 30 June in the US and West Indies, and the latter some time in September and October in Bangladesh.
Both Indian teams will want to end a trophy drought: the men haven’t won a T20 World Cup since the famous first edition in 2007, and the women’s team is yet to lift the cup. However, the women’s team has been more consistent, making it to the semifinals or beyond five out of eight times, against four out of eight for the men. India men are the
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