5 Things about AI you may have missed today: IIT Kanpur takes AI to telemedicine, big boost for AI skills in China, more

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AI roundup: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on his Asia tour where he met LG Electronics executives in South Korea. The discussions included partnerships to expand mixed reality devices and AI development; in a move that has shocked the tech world, Apple makes AI a priority and abandons its plans for developing self-driving cars. Reports say many employees from the project will be shifted to the iPhone maker's artificial intelligence (AI) division. 

Today, Mark Zuckerberg had a meeting with LG Electronics executives, CEO William Cho and parent company LG Corp COO Kwon Bong-seok in South Korea. The discussion was largely about building partnerships in expanding mixed reality devices. During the meeting, Cho expressed his interest in Meta's large language model-based AI technology and future AI cooperation, according to a Reuters report. 

Apple's project Titan which included the vision of building electric cars has been cancelled. The project included more than 2000 employees who now will be shifted to the iPhone's AI division. The company had already spent billions of dollars on research and development. According to reports, the decision was taken to focus on building Apple's generative AI and mixed reality products. Bloomberg report highlighted that the decision was long overdue and now it was finally made official to the employees on Tuesday.

Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur partnered with the Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh to build advanced telemedicine facilities with the help of AI. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has already been signed which highlights the enhancement of “quality of telemedicine services, implementing AI-based solutions to address population health impact,” according to a Moneycontrol report. 

Krutrim AI chatbot was launched recently. It is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot created by Ola-backed startup Krutrim Si