Union Minister Ashwini meets Sam Altman of Vaishnav Openai, discusses cooperation

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav met OpenEE CEO Sam Altman and discussed India’s strategy to create the entire AI Stack – GPU, model and apps.

The minister wrote on X that Altman was ready to cooperate with India on all three.

The minister further said that the CEO of OpenAII appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sight of democrating technology.

During the meeting with Altman, Vaishnav, referring to the Chandrayaan 3 mission, informed Altman about how India had sent a mission to the moon, which was done by many other countries.

“Why can’t we do a model that will be a part of the cost of many other countries? So yes, innovation will reduce that cost, “he/she asked, asked to make a lost AI model.

he/she said that in healthcare, education, agriculture, weather forecast, in disaster management, in transport, many different things are working on India.

During the meeting, in which the audience had several startups, Vaishnav requested the startup community to come up with unique solutions.

The minister shared a clip of his/her conversation with Altman and Startup Group. In the video, the minister said, “We are starting a kind of open competition (for AI) very soon.”

Earlier, speaking in the budget round table today in India, the minister said that India will have its first basic artificial intelligence model in a maximum of 10 months from now.

The government is going to host an open source model like Chinese ‘Deepsek’ on Indian servers. It comes at a time when the Chinese startup has challenged the AI ​​world. he/she had said that India has already approved the AI ​​Mission last year, which has an allocation of about Rs 10,000 crore.

Saying that AI has started as a technology, the minister said that the amount of innovations that is moving forward is going to be unprecedented.

Given India’s strong IT industry and a large set of data, AI-based utilities can avail heavy capacity in the country. However AI is still in its early stages.

Many nations worldwide are using AI technologies for better service distribution and are meant to reduce human intervention, but there are possibility of job cuts as technology develops.