OpenAI CEO Sam Altman likely to visit India on February 5
The Hindu
Sam Altman's visit to India amid AI dominance shifts, legal hurdles, and India's own AI ambitions.
ChatGPT creator OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman is likely to visit India on February 5, sources said on Monday, adding that the high-profile founder is expected to meet top government officials and engage in an industry fireside chat during his trip.
Mr. Altman's visit, his second one in two years, comes at an interesting juncture when OpenAI's (and indeed the western world'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 USD 6 million and guzzling a fraction of compute power when compared to popular models like ChatGPT.
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Sources said Mr. Altman would be present at a fireside chat in New Delhi during his trip and meet top government officials. Sources did not provide other details, or elaborate.
Ahead of Mr. Altman's visit, a 2023 video of him - where he had expressed doubts about powerful AI models emerging outside of United States - has resurfaced.
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced up to USD 500 billion private sector investment to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure. The new company, Stargate, which is being created in partnership with Oracle, SoftBank and Microsoft-backed Open AI, would add to tech companies' large investments in US data centres, huge buildings full of servers that provide massive computing power.
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Sam Altman's visit to India amid AI dominance shifts, legal hurdles, and India's own AI ambitions.