Sam Altman clarifies amid furore over 'India's ChatGPT attempt is hopeless' remark

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OpenAI founder Sam Altman had made waves earlier this week after asserting that India's attempts to develop an artificial intelligence tool like ChatGPT was "hopeless"..

The remarks came during an interaction with venture capitalist and former Google India head Rajan Anandan during his recent visit to India..

The latter had sought to know how Indian startups could embark on the journey of developing models akin to those created by OpenAI...

And no one but the builders can answer that question," he tweeted.. the right question is what a startup can do thats never been done before, that will contribute a new thing to the world. i have no doubt indian startups can and will do that!.

Talking about his plan for India, Altman said that the first thing he will do in India is to fund startups..

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