Ex-OpenAI Researcher Shyamal Anadkat Moves to India After 4 Years to Build AI Future
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Updated · Hindustan Times · Jun 22
Ex-OpenAI Researcher Shyamal Anadkat Moves to India After 4 Years to Build AI Future
3 articles · Updated · Hindustan Times · Jun 22
Summary
Earlier this year, Shyamal Anadkat left OpenAI’s Bay Area office and relocated to India, saying he now sees building frontier AI from there as viable rather than counterintuitive.
Four years leading OpenAI’s Applied Evals team shaped that decision, but Anadkat said weeks of talks with researchers and engineers across India and APAC convinced him strong ambition already exists locally.
India’s main gap is not talent or opportunity, he argued, but belief: the confidence that institutions of global consequence can be built outside Silicon Valley.
Posts responding to his announcement pointed to Bengaluru as his current base and cast the move as a bid to tackle unusually hard scientific and research problems from India.