OpenAI’s runaway success has spawned a slew of Indian startups keen to take a shot at generative AI. A fair amount of capital is being invested behind the latest buzzword—but it’s unclear what will stick.
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VCs are a dime a dozen in the San Francisco Bay Area. So, aside from the bragging rights that come with being seen as a global venture firm, it makes no sense for the now-Indian Peak XV to invest in a market that’s already crowded.
In India’s funding winter, nobody wanted to put money in the content company. Why has Jungle Ventures done so then?
Copyright protection is a negative right. Nobody can copy your work without getting your permission. If OpenAI did not get Studio Ghibli’s nod to train its LLM on the studio’s original, hand-drawn artwork style, we need to ask whether it is copyright infringement.