India's technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently met with Mr Altman and said that the billionaire was "willing to collaborate" in the country's effort to develop its own cut-price AI systems. He noted that OpenAI has not made significant strides in model distillation yet, which is a technique aimed at making AI models more efficient. He also acknowledged that training AI models remains a costly endeavor. Mr Vaishnaw said he held a "super cool discussion" with Mr Altman in New Delhi, where they talked about India's "strategy of creating the entire AI stack" of graphics processing units (GPU), models and apps. OpenAI was the firm that brought generative models to public consciousness in 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT. From February 10-11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will co-host an artificial intelligence summit in France, which Sam Altman is expected to attend. #NDTVDigitalOriginals #SamAltman #OpenAi #AI #ChatGPT