By Aditya Soni, Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra
NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Bill Gates pulled out of India’s AI Impact Summit hours before his scheduled keynote address on Thursday, dealing another blow to a flagship event already marred by organisational lapses, a robot row and complaints of traffic chaos.
Still the six-day event notched more than $200 billion in investment pledges for AI infrastructure in India, including a $110 billion plan announced by Reliance Industries on Thursday. India’s Tata Group also signed a partnership deal with OpenAI.
Gates’ absence, however, followed another high-profile cancellation by Nvidia‘s Jensen Huang
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