Dear Subscriber,
Welcome to Beyond Tomorrow!
We are in week 12 of our new weekly newsletter, crafted to keep you at the forefront of AI advancement. Every week, we’ll bring you a round-up of the most impactful AI stories, highlight how they shape our world, and provide insights into what’s next in the ever-evolving AI landscape.
If you’d like to receive Beyond Tomorrow in your inbox every week, click here to subscribe.
AI wars make up for a significant part of the coverage around artificial intelligence—perhaps almost as much as the stories around how the technology is transforming society. And when you have personalities like Elon Musk, drama is guaranteed. Soap operas can definitely pick up a plot line or two.
A few days ago, Musk surprised everyone with a $97.4 billion offer for the non-profit that controls OpenAI whose CEO Sam Altman hit back by offering to buy Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) for one-tenth that amount. A few personal jabs were also traded. As with a lot of what Musk says and does, it seems that the offer may not have been serious and in fact, may well have been more about throwing a spanner in the works and complicating Altman’s plans to change OpenAI totally into a for-profit entity.
We covered this episode, and we all know a lot more is yet to come. As much as Altman may want to put his head down and focus on his plans for OpenAI, Musk will do what he does best. It wouldn’t be easy to be Altman, given you have Musk on one side and DeepSeek on the other. It’s like being between the devil and the deep sea. You figure out who’s the devil in that phrase and who’s the deep sea.
While some played what seemed like games in their quest for domination, others spoke of co-operation. And as usual, the Global South leads when it comes to co-operation—it’s not for nothing that countries like Brazil and India top the charts when it comes to co-operative institutions. India played a key role at the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi co-chaired with French President Emmaneul Macron.
India intends to lead the Global South when it comes to the equitable development of AI that is fair, ethical and benefits humanity rather than one country. This includes issues like reskilling which is key to the AI conversation in the Global South. In this regard, it is interesting to contrast US Vice President JD Vance’s combative statements at the same platform with India’s. Vance spoke about the US being the leader in AI and how the new administration intended to keep it that way. Well, DeepSeek may have a thing or two to say about that, but that’s another story.
Significantly, the US and UK didn’t sign the summit declaration either, which called for ensuring that AI was open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy. Hardly controversial stuff.
India also focused on collaborating with France when it came to the future of AI. On an unrelated side note, a Dassault ad released for Aero India 2025 had a small line that underlined how despite the image of India depending only on Russian military equipment, the fact is many of India’s frontline combat aircraft for the past 70 years have been French–from the Toofani in the 1950s, the Mystère, the Anglo-French Jaguar, the Mirage 2000 that dominated the skies during the Kargil war to the current Rafale. Perhaps, the Indo-French collaborative efforts on AI will be a great, win-win partnership. More than that, it may even pave the way for future global collaborations.
Here are some of the other must-read insights and news from this week when it comes to the world of AI:
Paris AI Summit: Scientific Advisor To Centre Stresses On India-France AI Tech Collaboration
PM Narendra Modi’s Speech At AI Summit: Code Of Humanity, Jobs To Biases, Check Highlights
India To Host Next AI Action Summit Later This Year
AI Paradox: Less Than 2% CEOs Are Prepared, Even Though 97% Planning Integration: Cisco Study
AI Paradox: Less Than 2% CEOs Are Prepared, Even Though 97% Planning Integration: Cisco Study
Government To Leverage AI For Mule Account Detection, Says Amit Shah
Elon Musk’s Bid To Control OpenAI Complicates For-Profit Transition
Sam Altman Says ‘No Thank You’ To Elon Musk-Led Group’s OpenAI Bid
Time Ripe For India To Build AI Talent Repatriation Program, Suggests NITI Aayog
DeepSeek Vs Google: Sundar Pichai Says Gemini Is As Affordable As DeepSeek
Amazon, Echoing Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand
ROI Remains Greatest AI Adoption Barrier, Despite Three-Fold Spend Increase: Lenovo Study
Gen AI Adoption In Banking To Rise, But Business Models Not Keeping Pace With Innovation: IBM Study
Data Integration Woes Hurting AI Adoption; 80% Red Flag This As Major Challenge
Regulating Virtual Digital Asset Service Providers In India Could Take From Model Law
Coimbatore AI Startup Gives Rs 14 Crore Bonus To Employees
Till next week,
-Ivor Soans
. Read more on Technology by NDTV Profit.AI wars make up for a significant part of the coverage around artificial intelligence—perhaps almost as much as the stories around how the technology is transforming society. Read MoreTechnology
NDTV Profit
