Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI ‘ready to invest $1 million’ in India

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In his recent post thread on X, Aravind Srinivas stated that India could be the country that provides the world with cost-effective LLM solutions.

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Announcing LLM Training Initiative in India

Aravind stated that he is ready to invest a sum of $1 million and 5 hours/week to endorse Indian technical professionals with an optimistic state of mind for LLM development.

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Aravind Srinivas Investment for a Better AI Ecosystem

Srinivas disagreed with the current practice of developing AI applications on top of pre-built open-source LLMs instead of training new models from scratch.

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Disagreement with India’s Existing POV Regarding LLM

The recent release of the DeepSeek r1 model has sparked an interest in model development. The r1 model can produce better responses than OpenAI’s o1 model at a much more affordable rate.

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China’s DeepSeek r1 Model

Mentioning ISRO’s cost-effective contribution to the field of space research, Srinivas indicated India has the potential to revolutionize AI.

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Analogy of ISRO to Develop Better AI Solutions

The post has received a positive response from professionals worldwide, with over a million views in the past two days.

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Generating Interest Among Technical Professionals