‘India must accept the reality’: Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal agrees with Sam Altman’s ‘hopeless’ comment

OpenAI founder-CEO Sam Altman has already given a clarification on the ‘hopeless’ comment he made throughout his current go to to India. Altman has additionally discovered a supporter in Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal, who asserted that individuals should settle for the fact that Indian founders and traders don’t construct or spend money on issues ‘with a truly long-term view’.

“We didn’t build a global Social Network or an Operating system or a Browser or Cloud Infra. Yet we are so offended by @sama’s statement,” Munjal tweeted on Saturday.

The Unacademy founder-CEO continued: “I would love nothing more than Global Products and Companies being built out of India. But we have to also accept the reality. Founders and Investors in India don’t build/invest in things with a truly-long term view.”

He additional mentioned that India should construct a ‘better ecosystem’ in order that the subsequent OpenAI comes from the nation, including that Indians ought to transcend dominating SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and IT providers.

What is the controversy?

Altman is presently on a tour to Asia, as part of which he visited India, doing so final week. Besides assembly prime minister Narendra Modi, he attended varied occasions, together with one organised by The Economic Times. It was at this occasion the place he was requested a query by former Google India chief Rajan Anandan.

Anandan sought steering from Altman on how Indian startups may work in direction of creating fashions alongside the traces of OpenAI.

The OpenAI CEO replied: “The way this works is we’re going to tell you, it’s totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models you shouldn’t try, and it’s your job to like try anyway. And I believe both of those things. I think it is pretty hopeless.”

This remark stirred a serious row, with even Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani ‘accepting’ Altman’s ‘dare’ that Indian corporations wouldn’t be capable to match the skillset of their US counterparts.