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“Apna time bhi aayega,” Anupam Mittal slams Sam Altman for his “hopeless” remark on India after DeepSeek’s success.

Taking to X, Shaadi.com founder Anupam Mittal took a dig at OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman for his earlier comment that competing with OpenAI was “totally hopeless.”

By Naina Yadav
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After China’s DeepSeek AI shook the artificial intelligence industry by claiming that it was developed for less than $6 million, there has been a lot of chatter in the Indian startup and entrepreneurship community as well.

On January 30, Shaadi.com founder and entrepreneur Anupam Mittal took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his thoughts on OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s comments in 2023.

Mittal highlighted how Sam had said that it is “totally hopeless” to compete with OpenAI. He was glad that somebody finally challenged Altman.

Anupam Mittal wrote, “It is completely hopeless to compete with us’  @sama

 words to India in 2023.  While India hasn’t done it yet, am glad somebody made him less smug. Apna time bhi aayega 💪🏼”

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MIXED REACTIONS

The Shark Tank judge’s post garnered mixed reactions from people on the internet.

While some accused Mittal of playing the “nationalist card,” others asked him to invest money in building an LLM model in India.

One X user commented, “He did not say it like that. He joked about it. You know this very well but playing the nationalist card.”

An individual criticized Indians for celebrating DeepSeek and wrote, “At this point Indians (including me) are just satisfying their ego by celebrating the rise of a CHINESE company which lied about their capex and GPU installations. Disruptions exist everywhere, but you gotta respect @sama for the genAI revolution.”

Another user wrote, “We will for sure copy models and recreate cheaper ones. But 100% sure we will not create our own LLM.” To this Anupam Mittal confidently responded, “Willing to bet that we will have multiple foundational models before the end of the year.”

A fourth individual commented, “India won’t be able to compete unless we have good research and development labs and teams. Nor do I see much of investments in that area. Until that it aint gonna happen!”

Someone also commented, “Aap daalo paise banate ek indian LLM.” Anupam responded, “On it.”

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SAM ALTMAN SAID HIS COMMENT WAS ‘TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT’

According to The Indian Express, in 2023 itself, Sam Altman had clarified his stance and said that his comment was taken out of context.

He clarified that the actual question was whether a company could compete with an AI giant with just 10 million dollars. To this, he said that it was “totally hopeless.”

Responding to a post on X, the OpenAI CEO wrote, “this is really taken out of context! the question was about competing with us with $10 million, which i really do think is not going to work. but i still said try! however, i think it’s the wrong question.”

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