Google counters Nilekani; says it’s not LLM vs use cases

Google Research India head Manish Gupta on Tuesday disagreed with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s observation that instead of building large language models, India should focus on use cases. “There’s a technologist that I deeply respect, Nandan Nilekani, who made this statement: India should forget about foundation model building, just focus on the use cases. And I would say, with the person I respect, I respectfully disagree,” Gupta said.