Oddest moments from India’s AI summit: Missing stars, traffic chaos and robo-dog controversy
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Key Points:
- Several headline speakers, including Bill Gates and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, withdrew from the AI summit, impacting the event's showcase of global AI leadership and raising questions about who is steering the conversation.
- The summit's timing was problematic, coinciding with Chinese New Year and other major global events like the launch of Donald Trump's Board of Peace, leading to key delegations being underrepresented and attendees experiencing summit fatigue.
- A viral moment involved India's Galgotias University presenting a robotic dog that was revealed to be a Chinese-made Unitree Go2 model, leading to online backlash and fact-checking.
- An awkward group photo with Indian Prime Minister Modi and AI executives Sam Altman and Dario Amodei highlighted subtle tensions between rival AI companies, drawing
