India, March 1 -- The dust had barely settled on the India AI Impact Summit when OpenAI showed off its war chest this week. The $110 Bn fundraise is the largest private investment deal ever and takes OpenAI to a valuation of $730 Bn, just shy of the trillion-dollar mark.

Amid all the concerns about the enormity and the scale of the AI challenge in front of India, this single deal serves as a signal that things are about to change even more rapidly than they have thus far.

This AI war chest, filled by Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia, gives OpenAI and Sam Altman all the ammunition to fight off Anthropic, which has emerged as its biggest challenger in recent months.

Anthropic and Claude have completely turned the AI narrative around, and whi...