
Luma AI CEO warns of ‘digital erasure’ of cultures as company expands into Mena
Gulf Times
Luma AI CEO warns of ‘digital erasure’ of cultures as company expands into Mena
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to generate most online content in the near future, and without deliberate efforts to incorporate Middle Eastern cultures into AI models, those cultures risk fading from the digital landscape, an industry expert has warned. In an interview with 'Gulf Times', Amit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, said cultures that are not represented in AI systems today may be erased from tomorrow’s digital record. “If we combine three things, our identity living online, AI generating most of that content, and models trained only on existing internet data, then cultures that are underrepresented risk vanishing,” Jain said. “The alternative is that it simply disappears from the internet.” Luma AI, a Palo Alto-based foundation lab, recently raised $1bn in Series C funding led by HUMAIN and announced plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI supercluster, Project Halo, to train next-generation “world models”. These multimodal systems are designed to understand video, audio and language simultaneously, not just text. “Text is humanity’s interpretation of the universe. Video and audio are records of the physical world. When you combine them, you start building intelligence that understands how the universe functions — and how humans interact with it,” Jain explained.













