India Just Threw a Massive AI Party and It Was Beautiful Chaos

India just hosted one of the biggest AI events the world has ever seen, and it was exactly as wild as you'd expect when you put a quarter of a million people, every major tech CEO, and two heads of state in the same place.

The India AI Impact Summit brought out the absolute heavyweights: Sam Altman from OpenAI, Dario Amodei from Anthropic, Sundar Pichai from Google, and even India's Prime Minister Modi alongside French President Macron. The numbers being thrown around were staggering. Indian conglomerate Adani announced it's allocating $100 billion to build AI infrastructure. India earmarked $1.1 billion for a state-backed AI venture fund. Blackstone picked up a $600 million stake in Indian AI startup Neysa.

But the best part? A professor at Galgotias University went on national TV and claimed that a robot at the summit was "developed" by their institution. It was actually made by Unitree, a Chinese robotics company. Just casually taking credit for someone else's robot on state television. You can't make this stuff up.

Sam Altman dropped a wild stat too: India now has over 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, second only to the United States. Indian students are the biggest users of ChatGPT globally.

The summit makes one thing crystal clear: the AI race isn't just between the US and China anymore. India is throwing serious money and serious ambition into the ring.

As reported by TechCrunch and CNBC.

Source: TechCrunch