Indian-origin CEO hits out at Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani over AI: ‘He is wrong’

Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI Aravind Srinivas has criticised Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani over his stance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and suggested that he was wrong in asking Indians to focus on only one aspect of the technology.

In a post on X, the Perplexity AI CEO started out by calling Nilekani "awesome" and said his efforts with Infosys and UPI were unmatched contributions to the nation. However, he also flagged his efforts to push Indians to ignore AI model training skills.

"To be clear: Nandan Nilekhani is awesome, and he's done far more for India than any of us can imagine through Infosys, UPI, etc. But he's wrong on pushing Indians to ignore model training skills and just focus on building on top of existing models. Essential to do both," he said.