Tech Mahindra CEO accepts Sam Altman's ‘challenge’ to build ChatGPT-like tool – Hindustan Times
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During an event in India held by The Economic Times, OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman stated that it is ‘hopeless’ for India to try to build an artificial intelligence tool akin to ChatGPT. His remarks were in response to a query posed by Rajan Anandan, a former Google India executive who is now a venture capitalist.
Anandan had approached Altman for advice on how Indian entrepreneurs may create models similar to OpenAI.
“Sam, we have a very vibrant ecosystem in India, but specifically focused on AI, are there spaces where you see an Indian startup building foundational (AI) models, how should we think about that, where is it that an Indian team (should start) to actually build something truly substantial?” the former Vice President of Google in India and South East Asia asked.
Altman reiterated that competing with OpenAI is impossible, saying, “The way this works is we’re going to tell you, it’s totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models you shouldn’t try, and it’s your job to try anyway.” And I believe both of these statements. “I believe it is pretty hopeless.”
In response to his remarks, Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani accepted Altman’s ‘challenge’ that Indian companies could not match the AI skill set of their American counterparts.
“OpenAI founder Sam Altman said it’s pretty hopeless for Indian companies to compete with them,” he remarked on Twitter. Hello, @sama. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, FROM ONE CEO TO ANOTHER.”
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