Microsoft's forward-thinking bets and aggressive investments in AI have helped the software giant become the world's most valuable company. But Satya Nadella, the normally reserved chief executive, couldn't resist taking shots at other industries with his gloves on.
“We have the best model today…even if there's a lot of fuss, a year from now GPT4 will be better,” Nadella said at a company event in Mumbai on Wednesday. “We're waiting for the competition to start. I'm sure it will arrive, but it's not really [is] We have…an industry-leading LLM. ”
Nadella's rare reality check came when he pitched Microsoft's increasingly powerful AI product lineup to leaders of India's largest companies. In his 35-minute keynote address, Nadella challenged companies to start thinking about how to deploy AI to increase productivity and improve products, while also urging them not to fall behind.
Microsoft executives urged India to step up efforts and focus on AI. “This new capability, AI, is going to impact GDP,” he says.
Nadella attended Microsoft's Mumbai event on Wednesday. Image credits: microsoft
Nadella, who was born in India, said the South Asian country is already the second-largest talent base for AI developers on GitHub. Puneet Chandhok, who left his role as head of AWS India last year to join Microsoft to lead the company's India and South Asia operations, added: “India is no longer just great. We are also reliable. India has started dreaming big and we are chasing this dream as if our lives depended on it.”
The company also announced that it will provide AI skills opportunities to 2 million Indians in smaller cities and towns by next year. “I hope that there will be a consensus, and that in some ways will really help spread this technology,” he said of the socio-economic progress.
“For the first time, I felt that there was no gap between what was happening in India and the rest of the world. If anything, the use case here is very unique and is carving its own path,” said Nadella. he added.
Nadella said one such unique service is an “ethical data company” that creates datasets in multiple Indian languages to train AI models, while providing jobs and education to people in rural areas. It was later emphasized that it was Karya.