
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman meets with Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, discusses collaboration
The HinduOpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said that the country is important for Artificial Intelligence and OpenAI, and added that India - with its full stack model - should be among the leaders of the AI revolution. Altman’s bullish view on India’s AI efforts is a telling statement, given that he had faced a backlash in 2023, when he had expressed doubts about powerful AI models emerging outside of the United State. During the fireside chat on Wednesday, IT Minister Vaishnaw said that innovation can come from anywhere in the world and “why shouldn’t it come from India?” Altman’s visit, his second one in two years, comes at an interesting juncture when OpenAI’s dominance in artificial intelligence has abruptly been challenged by Chinese upstart DeepSeek, which turned heads with its low-cost AI model R1, built at less than $6 million and guzzling a fraction of compute power when compared to popular models like ChatGPT. Last week, India outlined global AI ambitions with plans to build its own ‘foundational model’ that could take on the might of ChatGPT, DeepSeek R1, and others, as it lined up “most affordable” common compute facility powered by 18,693 GPUs to be used by startups and researchers, for creating Artificial Intelligence applications, and new algorithms. He said compared to global models costing $2.5-3 per hour of usage, India’s AI Model will cost less than ₹100 per hour after a 40% government subsidy.
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