India AI Mission: How we're poised to ride next innovation wave
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India AI Mission: How we're poised to ride next innovation wave

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In the past five months, both Jensen Huang, CEO of the American computer chipmaker Nvidia, and Sam Altman, who heads OpenAI, have visited India, emphasising the country’s growing significance in the tech world, including in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Basically, it reinforces the need for self-reliance in AI infrastructure, talent development and certainly open-source collaboration.” HOMEGROWN MODELS On February 11, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon all these developments as he announced India’s plan to develop “its own LLM considering our diversity”. “By enabling an ecosystem around its foundational models, BharatGen envisions positioning India as a global leader in Generative AI,” Prof. Abhay Karandikar, secretary, DST, tells india today. THE AGE OF AGENTS According to Nasscom vice-chairperson Srikanth Velamakanni, who has co-founded the AI firm Fractal Analytics, “there are two games that India can play” in this field. “This year, I expect we will see the rise of AI agents,” says Velamakanni, adding that startups are already building online marketplaces where agents performing different tasks will be made available.

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