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LinkedIn, Pinterest more popular than Twitter
MUMBAI: A new Pew Research Center Internet Project study shows a change in the use of the social media trend. While Facebook is still on the top with 71 percent online adults on the network, up from 67 percent one year ago; the result also shows that 42 per cent adults are now using at least two networks.
Another interesting revelation made by the study is that Pinterest saw the biggest spike in 2013, jumping from 15 percent of online adults to 21 percent while passing Twitter (18 percent) in the process. LinkedIn is at the second spot after Facebook at 22 percent, while Instagram grew from 13 percent to 17 percent.
According to industry experts, Twitter is less intuitive than Facebook and thus can turn off users, limiting its growth as a mainstream social media platform.
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OpenAI hires Arjun Gupta as its first solutions architect in India
Former startup CTO joins OpenAI to help Indian founders scale AI systems
BENGALURU: OpenAI has appointed Arjun Gupta as its first solutions architect in India, signalling a sharper on-ground push as the country’s startups and enterprises race from AI pilots to production.
Gupta announced the move on LinkedIn, saying he had joined OpenAI’s go-to-market team to work directly with founders building on GPT models, multimodal systems and agent-based AI. His mandate: help companies move beyond demos into live, scalable deployments.
The hire reflects a shift in India’s AI market. After a frenzy of experimentation, demand is rising for hands-on architectural support as firms attempt to operationalise AI across products, sales and customer support.
Before OpenAI, Gupta was co-founder and CTO at AuraML, a generative robotics simulation and synthetic data startup that raised $1.23 million. The company worked with technology heavyweights including Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. His experience spans cloud-native infrastructure, machine-learning training and production-grade AI pipelines.
Writing about the move, Gupta said he had spent recent years building AI systems from the ground up, scaling infrastructure and delivering customer-facing solutions. He described India as being at an inflection point, citing deep technical talent, strong entrepreneurial momentum and rapidly improving AI tooling.
The appointment also dovetails with OpenAI’s expanding enterprise strategy. Earlier this week, the company unveiled the Frontier Alliance, a programme built around its Frontier platform and backed by consulting firms such as Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Accenture and Capgemini.
Under the initiative, OpenAI’s forward-deployed engineers will work alongside consultants to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows, from software development to sales and support.
As competition intensifies, OpenAI finds itself jostling with rivals such as Anthropic and technology giants including Google, all courting large organisations eager for AI-driven transformation. OpenAI argues its approach allows firms to modernise without ripping out existing systems, while gaining closer access to its research and engineering teams.
