Aravind Srinivas, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Perplexity AI, has lately tipped up his concentrate on India’s AI aspirations and has actually currently promised to spend $1 million and 5 hours a week to assist the nation attain achievement in AI.
In a blog post on X (previously Twitter), Srinivas composed, “I am ready to invest a $1mm personally and 5 hours/week of my time into the most qualified group of people that can do this right now for making India great again in the context of AI. Consider this as a commitment that cannot be backtracked. The team has to be cracked and obsessed like DeepSeek team and has to open source the models with MIT license.”
“And beating DeepSeek R1 on all benchmarks with rigor will mean I will invest $10mm more.” the Perplexity AI chief executive officer included.
What is Srinivas recommending?
Srinivas composed a collection of articles on Tuesday, beginning with slamming Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani’s position that India ought to neglect structure huge language versions (LLMs) in favour of structure calculate, facilities and AI cloud.
The Perplexity AI chief executive officer claimed that Nilekani is “wrong on pushing Indians to ignore model training skills and just focus on building on top of existing models. Essential to do both.”
He later on took place to include that India has actually dropped in a catch assuming that AI versions would certainly take a great deal of cash to educate however the current spots of China’s DeepSeek AI disclose that’s not the instance. Srinivas additionally wanted that India alters its position on AI versions and concentrates on structure “muscle to train their models that are not just good for Indic languages but are globally competitive on all benchmarks”.
The Indian- birthed business owner kept in mind that while he is not in a setting to run a DeepSeek-like the firm, he enjoys to assist anybody “obsessed enough to do it and open-source the models.”
