UPSC Prelims Facts – 15 March 2024

UPSC Prelims Facts

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting launched PB-SHABD

  • PB- SHABD – A news sharing service from Prasar Bharati.
  • Aim – To provide daily news feeds in video, audio, text, photo and other formats to the subscribers from media landscape.
  • Features –
    • Service is offered free of cost for the 1st year
    • Provide news stories in all major Indian languages across 50 categories

The Eri (tank) network in the Kazhuveli watershed region in Tamil Nadu is to be proposed for nomination to the World Monuments Fund Watch 2025 program.

  • World Monuments Watch – Nomination-based program that connects local heritage preservation to global awareness and action.
  • WMF – Leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world’s most treasured places.
  • Headquarters – New York

Sora launched recently

  • Sora – An AI model able to generate videos based on text instructions.
  • Developed by – OpenAI
  • Features –
    • It can animate a static image, transforming it into a dynamic video presentation.
    • It can produce videos up to one minute in duration, ensuring high visual quality and accuracy.
    • Sora can generate complex scenes with various characters, precise actions, and detailed backgrounds

US-based applied AI lab has introduced Devin

  • Devin – World’s first autonomous AI software engineer.
  • Features –
    • It can build and deploy apps end-to-end
    • Train and fine-tune its own AI models.
    • Plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions.
    • Recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.

Prime Minister launched one-stop PM-SURAJ portal

  • PM Suraj – Credit schemes for marginalized sections.
  • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE).
  • Objective – Uplifting most marginalized sections of society, and supporting credit assistance to 1 lakh entrepreneurs hailing from disadvantaged communities.
  • Credit facilitated through – Banks, Non-Banking Financial Company-Micro Finance Institutions’ (NBFC-MFIs), and other organisations.

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