Microsoft’s prescient bets and aggressive investments in AI have propelled the software program large to develop into the world’s most respected firm. But Satya Nadella, its usually reserved chief government, couldn’t resist touchdown a gloved jab at the remainder of the trade.
“We have the best model today … even with all the hoopla, one year after, GPT4 is better,” Nadella stated at an organization occasion in Mumbai on Wednesday. “We are waiting for the competition to arrive. It will arrive, I’m sure, but the fact [is] that we have the most leading LLM out there.”
Nadella’s uncommon little bit of reality-check got here as he pitched Microsoft’s more and more highly effective lineup of AI choices to the leaders of a few of India’s largest firms. In a 35-minute keynote tackle, Nadella implored companies to start exploring methods to deploy AI to spice up productiveness and refine their merchandise, whereas urging them to not fall behind.
Nadella at Microsoft’s Mumbai occasion on Wednesday. Picture credit: Microsoft
Born in India, Nadella stated the South Asian nation has already develop into the second largest expertise base for AI builders on GitHub. Puneet Chandok, who quit top role at AWS India last year to affix Microsoft to steer the corporate’s India enterprise, added: “India is not just incredible anymore. We are credible as well. India is starting to dream big, and going after this dream like our lives depend on it.”
The corporate additionally introduced that it’ll supply AI skilling alternatives to 2 million Indians by subsequent yr.
“This is first time I feel what is happening in India and the rest of the world there is no gap. If anything, the use cases here are so unique and paving their own path,” Nadella added. One such distinctive providing, Nadella later highlighted, is Karya, an “ethical data company” that creates datasets in a number of Indian languages to coach AI fashions whereas offering jobs and training to folks in rural areas.
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