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New Delhi Hotel Room Priced at ₹2.2 Lakh During AI Summit, Sparks Online Row
The summit aims to unite 250,000 attendees around a shared AI governance roadmap focusing on safety and the Global South’s AI opportunities.
- On Monday, India is hosting the annual global AI summit in New Delhi this week to pursue a unified framework for AI governance, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the country's rapid progress and youth capability.
- Industry concerns about AI safety and regulatory pressure helped prompt this week's summit, with organisers responding to scepticism after last year's AI Action Summit in Paris, where tech leaders called its declaration `devoid of any meaning`.
- Attendance spans researchers, governments and tech executives, with major company chiefs like Sundar Pichai, Cristiano Amon, Sam Altman, Brad Smith and Yann LeCun expected, while the UK Prime Minister and US President Donald Trump do not attend.
- The summit is likely to result in a non-binding pledge while aiming to elevate the Global South's voice, as India frames the event around People, Planet and Progress and highlights LLMs' energy demands.
- The United Kingdom refused to sign, and the US was absent, with Vice President JD Vance warning regulation could stifle innovation.
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New Delhi hotel room priced at ₹2.2 lakh during AI summit, sparks online row
In a post that has since gone viral, he claimed that a room at The Leela Palace, New Delhi, was priced at over ₹2.2 lakh per night. He further alleged that even state-run hotels were charging close to ₹80,000 per night.
The international summit on artificial intelligence will bring together some twenty heads of state and government in New Delhi this week, as well as major CEOs in the sector. The first...
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