Microsoft has become the most valuable corporation in the world thanks to its bold investments in artificial intelligence and its forward-thinking wagers. However, its normally taciturn CEO, Satya Nadella, couldn’t help but take a veiled shot at the other players in the market. “Today’s model is the best one yet. At a company event in Mumbai on Wednesday, Nadella stated, “GPT4 is better, even with all the hoopla, one year later.” “We are awaiting the arrival of the competitors. Though I’m sure it will come, the reality is that we currently have the top LLM available.
Nadella gave a rare reality check while introducing the executives of some of the biggest Indian corporations to Microsoft’s burgeoning array of AI products. During a 35-minute keynote speech, Nadella pleaded with companies to keep up with the times by looking at how AI can be used to improve efficiency and enhance their offerings.
The Microsoft executive pushed India to concentrate more on AI and step up its efforts. “The GDP will be impacted by this new capability, AI,” he stated.
India, where Nadella was born, is currently home to the second-largest pool of talent for AI developers on GitHub. The statement “India is not just incredible anymore” was made by Puneet Chandok, who left a senior position at AWS India last year to join Microsoft and oversee the company’s operations in India and South Asia. We also have credibility. India is beginning to dream large and pursuing this goal as if it were their life.
The company also declared that by the next year, it will provide 2 million Indians living in smaller cities and villages with opportunity to get AI skills. Regarding the advancement of socioeconomic conditions, he stated, “I hope consensus emerges and that is what really helps, in some sense, (with) the diffusion of this technology.”
For the first time, I sense that there is no difference between what is happening in India and the rest of the world. In fact, Nadella continued, “the use cases here are so distinct and forging their own route.
Karya, a “ethical data company” that generates datasets in several Indian languages to train AI models while giving jobs and education to people in rural areas, is one such exceptional offering, as Nadella further noted.
Great to be in India this week meeting with changemakers like the team at Karya, who are doing the critical work of building high-quality datasets for AI—and expanding economic opportunity at the same time. https://t.co/jJUDjnBUEo
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) February 7, 2024
