Rama Krishna Sangem
Here is a good news for Indian youth. India has potential to emerge as the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) very soon, according to Nvidia’s South Asian MD Vishal Dhupar. NVidia, an American MNC, based out of Santa Clara, California, is the world leader in AI and GPU (Graphic Processing Units) which are key to AI in future.
“India has the potential to become an intelligence capital of the world powered by accelerated computing and its skilled manpower,” said Vishal Dhupar. Nvidia, established in 1993, presently earns a revenue of around 90 billion US dollars and a net profit of around 30 billion US dollars. It has a total workforce of about 26,000. For Nvidia, India is a bright spot for talent and skilled workforce.
The global artificial intelligence (AI) chip firm aims to help bring the required infrastructure to the country to enable it to build AI in a sovereign manner, which could even make India a net exporter of intelligence rather than an importer, Dhupar said.
Together, if we bring all the domain experience that we have, fortify it, translate that into productivity, we can move India from being the back office of the world to the front office of the world. More importantly, this is where intelligence can be produced, and we can be known as the intelligence capital of the world,” he said.
Choice is of India
“We have a choice – we can depend upon the world outside us to do it or we can build it ourselves. What we propose is to do it sovereign,” Dhupar said. He was speaking at an event in Delhi on July 10, Wednesday showcasing purpose-built personal computers with Nvidia’s powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) that could boost efficiency in the content creation industry.
He said that a major change that accelerated compute brings is that multimodality can go beyond simply text to image content generation, as AI would be able to understand any underlying structure.
I can go from text to DNA, from DNA to amino acid,” Dhupar said. On the issue of accessibility of scarce and expensive GPUs for a country like India, Dhupar said that optimisation of the software layer of GPUs can bring 50-60% cost efficiency while optimisation of the architecture can bring two to four times improvement.
“At the end of the day, I have to reduce the cost so that you can apply the tool and you can curate your whole creativity and bring it into the world,” Dhupar said . He said India’s skilled manpower helps global capability centres when it comes to the design of semiconductors.
“You (companies) have a choice to do it here. Obviously, you’re going to compare the economics of what you want from where you want,” Dhupar said. His comments are a big hint to Indian government which is going to present its full budget fro 2024-25 on July 23. Indian universities and other center of excellence should take a hint from his remarks and get read to tap the opportunity to emerge as AI capital of the world.
