Sam Altman meant no disrespect, puts competition comments in context

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Saturday that his comments on competing with the company at the ET Conversations event had been taken out of context.

He had said at the event it was “totally hopeless to compete with us (OpenAI) on training foundation models,” citing a hypothetical scenario in which three engineers with $10 million tried to emulate the feat.

Altman was replying Saturday to Tech Mahindra MD and CEO CP Gurnani, who had earlier tweeted: “Dear @sama, from one CEO to another… challenge accepted,” citing the OpenAI CEO’s comment. “OpenAI founder Sam Altman said it’s pretty hopeless for Indian companies to try and compete with them,” Gurnani’s tweet read.

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