Indian Tech Giants Developing AI Competitor to Sam Altman’s ChatGPT

Tech Mahindra, Zoho Corp, and Tata Consultancy Services, three popular Indian tech majors, are building platforms that will be based on generative artificial intelligence to rival Sam Altman’s ChatGPT. While Zoho has announced the development of a large language model that will be supervised by its founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu, Tech Mahindra has created an AI think tank working with government officials and academia to determine how AI can be used to boost innovation. These developments follow Altman’s recent remarks claiming that it would be challenging for a team in India to build an AI model like OpenAI on a limited budget, triggering a surge of backlash on Twitter. Some experts agree with Altman, stating that it is more beneficial to direct Indian AI innovation towards building on top of existing global AI innovation, rather than creating alternatives to Western models from scratch. While IT giants TCS and Infosys continue to incorporate AI into their end-to-end solutions, Gogia, the CEO of Greyhound Research, suggests that it will take years and decades of research and investment to even come close to OpenAI and that Indian companies need to focus on building upon the global AI ecosystem and developing monetizable use cases.