Can India build a ChatGPT-like LLM? Anand Mahindra meets Sam Altman, says OpenAI CEO was misunderstood
Earlier this month, the OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman visited India to discuss artificial intelligence and spread awareness about both its potential and its dangers. During this period, he attended an event with prominent startup founders and business heads. A rather controversial moment also occurred in this event when answering a question on India's chances of building a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM), Altman said it's “completely hopeless”. Now, yesterday, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra met the ChatGPT creator at the state dinner hosted by US President Joe Biden and discussed the latter's views on India's capability in tech innovation.
The state dinner, which is also being called the ‘India-US Hi-Tech Handshake' event, saw some of the biggest tech leaders of the world, including Anand Mahindra, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Indra Nooyi, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and others share a table with PM Modi and US President Biden to discuss cooperation in building technology infrastructure in both the countries.
Mahindra also had the chance to speak with Altman during the event and spoke about the ChatGPT challenge. But it turns out to be a misunderstanding. Clarifying in a tweet, he said, “The Tech Handshake meeting this morning at the White House, was refreshingly frank…On the sidelines of the meeting, I caught up with Sam Altman about the ‘challenge' that @C_P_Gurnani had accepted. Sam reiterated that he'd been misunderstood. He's far from sceptical about Indian abilities”.
Referring to the event itself, Mahindra mentioned, “My optimism about closer technology cooperation is because the mutual benefit is now involved rather than just
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