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Microsoft’s premonitory bets and aggressive investments in AI have propelled the software giant to become the most valuable company in the world. Yet Satya Nadella, its usually reserved chief executive, couldn’t resist lashing out at the rest of the industry.
“We have the best model today…even with all this hype, a year later GPT4 is better,” Nadella said at a corporate event in Mumbai on Wednesday. “We are waiting for the competition to arrive. It will happen, I’m sure, but the fact [is] that we have the most efficient LLM on the market.
Nadella’s rare wake-up call came while he spear Microsoft’s increasingly powerful suite of AI offerings aimed at executives at some of India’s largest companies. In a 35-minute keynote speech, Nadella implored companies to start exploring ways to deploy AI to increase productivity and refine their products, while urging them not to fall behind.
The Microsoft executive urged India to step up its efforts and focus on AI. “This new capability, AI, is going to have an impact on GDP. ” he said.
Nadella at the Microsoft event in Mumbai on Wednesday. Image credits: Microsoft
Born in India, Nadella said the South Asian country has already become the second-largest talent base for AI developers on GitHub. Puneet Chandok, who left his leadership role at AWS India last year to join Microsoft to lead the company’s business in India and South Asia, added: “India is no longer just amazing. We are also credible. India is starting to dream big and chasing that dream as if our lives depended on it.
The company also announced that it will provide AI skilling opportunities to 2 million Indians in small towns and villages by next year. “I hope that a consensus emerges and that is what will actually contribute, in some sense, to the diffusion of this technology,” he said of socio-economic progress.
“This is the first time I feel there is no gap between what is happening in India and the rest of the world. If anything, the use cases here are so unique and blaze their own trail,” Nadella added.
One such unique offering, Nadella later pointed out, it’s workan “ethical data company” that creates datasets in multiple Indian languages to train AI models while providing jobs and education to people in rural areas.
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