- Published on February 11, 2025
- In Global Tech
How DeepSeek Made OpenAI Take India Seriously
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes while models are not cheap, India can still build its own reasoning model and become a leader.
- By Siddharth Jindal
Although it’s been a while since DeepSeek’s release, its impact has been profound, making AI both affordable and widely accessible; so much so that even OpenAI found itself under pressure.
Referring to a time when he said it was “hopeless” for India to build its own foundational model, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified his previous statement during his visit to India and said, “That was a very specific time with scaling laws.”
“But we are now in a world where we have made incredible progress with distillation,” he said while talking about the power of small models and reasoning models. As per him, while models are still not cheap, India can still build its own reasoning model and become a leader.
Recently, Altman published a blog in which he stated that t
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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