Sam Altman breaks silence on awkward moment with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at India AI summit: ‘I was sort of confused’

After an awkward onstage moment during a group photo session, OpenAI’s Sam Altman has clarified what happened alongside Dario Amodei, the chief executive of rival AI firm Anthropic. The brief but noticeable incident occurred at the India AI Impact Summit, where several leaders were linking hands for the ceremonial picture, but Altman and Amodei hesitated…

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Indian foundational models debut; next stop AI Mission 2.0

India’s first foundational artificial intelligence models launched on Wednesday, marking a leap for the country targeting a leadership role in the transformative technology sweeping the world. Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI, backed by investors such as Peak XV and Vinod Khosla, unveiled three foundational AI models with 3-billion, 30-billion and 105-billion parameters. The company, the first to…

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“If you have a deal, we have the money”

SoftBank did go slow on investing in India for a while, conceded Sumer Juneja, managing partner and head of EMEA and India at SoftBank Investment Advisors, attributing it to the cyclical nature of investing. “There will be times when we deploy a lot; there will be times when we get the liquidity outcome,” Juneja said…

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