A famous shark, founder, and CEO of Shadi.com Anupam Mittal seemed to celebrate the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s Success on micro-blogging platform X while hitting back the ChatGPT founder Sam Altman for his words “completely hopeless to compete with us” on India’s inaptitude for Artificial Intelligence.
I think you couldn’t understand anything, about what’s going on among them regarding Artificial intelligence. Why did Anupam Mittal celebrate the Chinese AI Startup? Why did he hit back at Sam Altman? What did Sam Altman remark about India’s inability? Who others are criticizing Sam and why? Let’s get everything in this article.
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Sam Altman Remarked On India, “It’s Completely Hopeless to Compete”.
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Sam Altman founder of Open AI ChatGPT, who emerged in front of the world, as his ChatGPT project seemed to be successful, broking several history records, had given a controversial remark in 2023 during a conversation with the Economic Times. Now that comment is dragging him into the criticism, as a Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has stunned the global AI community, surpassing ChatGPT on the IOS App Store.
In 2023, while talking with the Economic Times in India, Altman remarked arrogantly on an Indian question, “With a $10 million budget, it’s totally ‘HOPELESS’ to compete with us on Training Foundation Models, and even you shouldn’t try”.
Anupam Mittal Hits Back at Sam Altman, Reacting on His Arrogant Words.
His arrogant statement has been proved wrong, as a Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has shaken up the American monopoly on generative chatbot models, with his outstanding performance matching some of Open AI’s top models and surpassing ChatGPT on the IOS App Store. According to an Economic Times Report, the mind behind DeepSeak only spent a humble $5.6 million to bring their model to life.
Watching, An AI startup surpassing AI giants, without spending billions, Shadi.com founder and Shark Tank Judge Anupam Mittal joined the list of those criticizing Open AI founder Altman. Mittal took microblogging X, and ‘reminded’ Sam Altaman’s word on India ‘It’s hopeless to compete with us with a $10 million budget’.
Mittal wrote, “‘It is completely hopeless to compete with us’ @sama words to India in 2023. While India hasn’t done it yet, I am glad somebody made him less smug. Apna time bhi aayega”.
Sam Altman Faced Criticism from.
Not only Anupam Mittal but also other Indian as well foreign tycoons are taking Open AI and ChatGP as a subject of fun with their words over socials.
George Dourakoglou wrote on X, “They built an AI model that beats OpenAI, Google, and Meta. It only cost them $6M (vs OpenAI’s $17.9 billion). Here’s how DeepSeek is changing AI & why SamAltman & the US government are worried”.
While Quant Insider.io made fun, “Sam Altman trying to raise next round of funding to compete with Deepseek”.
Sam Altman Responded In Defence.
Sam Altman, has now come to the track, where he seems to give statements in defense of the criticism and rise of unexpected challenges. Altman addressed the misunderstanding in 2023, saying that his words were taken out of context. He cleared that the discussed topic was about whether a company could take on an AI giant with just $40 million in coffers.
Altman’s clarification still misses the points, because his arrogant comments in the context of India have been proved wrong, as DeepSeek has made it possible with just $6 million coffers, which was impossible for Sam Altman, to compete with his AI models in a $10 million budget.
Though India has not proved its statement wrong, with DeepSeek’s rapid expansion beyond China, India is stepping up its game in the AI space. Following the global boom in the AI landscape, the Indian Government is stepping into the field to create its Large Language Model (LLM), specially designed for India’s diverse languages, culture, and unique needs.
Replying to a netizen’s comment under his recent post, Anupam Mittal wrote, “Willing to bet that we will have multiple foundational models before the end of the year”.
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