OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman is about to go to India on February 05, Reuters quoted, citing sources. He’s more likely to meet Indian authorities officers in Delhi.
In an unique interview with AIM in November final 12 months, Pragya Misra, public coverage and partnerships lead at OpenAI and the one worker of the corporate in India, mentioned, “He [Altman] simply loves India.”
Misra additionally revealed that each time she spoke to Altman in regards to the use instances India is constructing, he requested how the headquarters might assist India to scale that utilizing OpenAI’s expertise.
“In comparison with lots of the options we see out of different nations from the developer ecosystem, the stuff that’s popping out of India is simply unimaginable,” she mentioned, including that the corporate has plans to broaden the crew in India.
Altman’s go to to India comes at a time when the corporate is battling authorized points with media publishers within the nation. Final 12 months, ANI sued OpenAI for infringing copyright and alleged that ChatGPT was able to reproducing its content material verbatim.
Lately, extra digital information retailers, such because the Indian Categorical, Hindustan Occasions, NDTV, and the Digital Information Publishers Affiliation (DNPA, which represents 20 media firms), joined the lawsuit.
Nevertheless, OpenAI opposed the inclusion of DNPA within the lawsuit and argued it doesn’t have any stake within the matter.
Two years in the past, Altman was in New Delhi and in addition met the prime minister, Narendra Modi. Again then, Altman made a controversial remark saying it was completely hopeless (for India) to compete with OpenAI in constructing basis fashions. It irked a lot of folks within the nation.
Altman was responding to former VP of Google India, Rajan Anandan, who requested Altman about how India might construct ‘substantial’ foundational fashions with a funds of 10 million versus 100 million.
In stark distinction, China’s DeepSeek has educated an AI mannequin (DeepSeek-V3) with simply $5.5 million, and their newest mannequin, the DeepSeek-R1 is healthier, if not on par with each different competitor. Furthermore, these fashions can be found on MIT’s open-source license totally free.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, urged India to construct an AI mannequin of their very own as a substitute of specializing in use instances. He even supplied monetary assist for a possible crew of engineers with ambitions to construct a DeepSeek-like mannequin within the nation.
That mentioned, India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw introduced on the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave that India may have their very own massive language mannequin ‘quickly’. The initiative can be pushed by the IndiaAI Compute Facility, which has acquired 18,000 GPUs to assist the creation of an LLM tailor-made to the nation’s wants.
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