India shouldn’t build another LLM: Nandan Nilekani – Newz9

BENGALURU: Nandan Nilekani stated he stands by his view that India wants not spend sources constructing another massive language mannequin (LLM). He was responding to a query from us on the view expressed lately by Google Research India director Manish Gupta that India will profit from constructing a basis mannequin,
“Foundation models are not the best use of your money. If India has $50 billion to spend, it should use that to build compute, infrastructure, and AI cloud. These are the raw materials and engines of this game,” he stated.
Foundation fashions like those that OpenAI and Meta are constructing typically price billions of {dollars} as a result of they’re being educated on huge quantities of information utilizing very costly infrastructure.
Nilekani has prior to now burdened that India ought to concentrate on constructing use circumstances for AI on high of the LLMs which can be accessible globally.
Last month, Gupta had stated on the Bengaluru Tech Summit that he “respectfully disagreed” with Nilekani’s recommendation on prioritizing use case constructing over constructing basis fashions round AI. “He is not preaching what he practiced. He revolutionized India’s technology landscape by starting with the basics. With Aadhaar, he did not start with use cases, he started with building foundations. We too must, using our constraints as ingredients for innovation,” he stated.