1/11
@RnaudBertrand
This is pretty hilarious in retrospect.
In India in 2023, Altman was asked how if a small, smart team with a budget of $10 million could build something substantial within AI.
His reply: "It’s totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models"
[Quoted tweet]
Sam Altman - founder of OpenAI and ChatGPT - is in India and VCs are asking some tough questions to him
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1666438180323696642/vid/1920x1080/TiS26MpJ4GkCkxu6.mp4
2/11
@minotauronlucy
How many foundation models has India trained since then? Zero.
There is no point bashing Sam Altman. India has not even produced a byte worth of weights to even snide at openAI.
3/11
@RnaudBertrand
Doesn't mean it wasn't possible, as Deepseek demonstrated...
4/11
@terrybythebay
[Quoted tweet]
DeepSeek was able to build their R1 model for only $6M because they bought all their GPUs directly from Temu.
5/11
@TheJesseMK
Do you think DeepSeek had a budget under $10M?
6/11
@1Paul_1
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”
7/11
@tate_terminal
with a mere $10 million, one could readily purchase a mirror for altman to gaze upon his own hubris, a modern-day icarus flying too close to the silicon sun.
8/11
@AGItechgonewild
True LMAO!!
9/11
@tacobelmin
You missed the part where he said “you should try anyway”!
10/11
@aledeniz
DeepSeek doesn’t have a $10 million budget though
They spend more than that – likely a multiple – just in wages.
11/11
@junyongz
Things would make sense if he added within “2 years”
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