Nvidia CEO bets on India growth, supports Hindi-language AI model
Jensen Huang’s push comes as India has risen in prominence for global tech companies amid rising US-China tensions
The US chip company, which is holding one of its AI summits in Mumbai, highlighted the ways Indian partners across industries are using its AI technology to bolster their products and services. Chief executive officer Huang is due to discuss AI’s potential in India with retail-to-refining mogul Mukesh Ambani at the event on Thursday.
India has emerged as a potentially major AI arena, with the country of 1.4 billion adopting the technology in industries including agriculture, education and manufacturing to boost efficiency. While still a small part of their revenue, global tech companies from Nvidia to Microsoft and Meta Platforms are betting on the rapidly-growing economy as a growth market and operations base.
Nvidia said it will help India’s Tech Mahindra to build a Hindi large language model, and work with e-commerce company Flipkart on its conversational customer-service systems. It will also collaborate with India’s healthcare companies to help them improve productivity in patient care and research.
The US company has emerged at the forefront of a global AI boom, supplying the chips tech leaders like Microsoft and Google use to develop artificial intelligence. Huang has toured the globe this year, pushing countries and enterprises to adopt AI technologies he has dubbed a “new industrial revolution”.
