India's AI Future: A Call for Top-Tier Research Talent
1 month, 2 weeks ago

India's AI Future: A Call for Top-Tier Research Talent

Hindustan Times  

The article emphasizes the criticality of top-tier AI research talent for India's AI ambitions. While India has a strong AI infrastructure, it lacks research talent in the field. This is crucial for India to become an AI power and achieve its National AI Mission (NAIM). The article suggests that India should focus on attracting and retaining top-tier AI research talent by providing a vibrant ecosystem with capital, talent, research, and infrastructure. The article also highlights the importance of fostering a collaborative environment between academia, industry, and government to nurture a thriving AI ecosystem in India.

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94 per cent of Indian desk workers feel the urgency to master AI
3 days, 17 hours ago

94 per cent of Indian desk workers feel the urgency to master AI

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Indian workers want to skill up on Artificial Intelligence as 94% feel an urgency to become AI expert. However, 40% of Indian workers have spent less than five hours learning how to use AI, and 30% of global workers say they have had no AI training at all, including no self-directed learning or experimentation, according to Slack's new Workforce …

India is at no. 4 on Stanford’s global AI power list
4 weeks, 1 day ago

India is at no. 4 on Stanford’s global AI power list

Live Mint  

The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI has released its findings about the AI-led technology ecosystem at a global level, using the Global Vibrancy Tool 2024 developed by the institute. The tracking tool, which measures a country’s AI ecosystem on key indicators including research papers, private investment, patents, and more, analyzed data from 36 countries to find that the United States …

India's adoption of AI technologies higher than global average, claims new report
1 month, 1 week ago

India's adoption of AI technologies higher than global average, claims new report

Hindustan Times  

A new research by the Boston Consulting Group pegged India's adoption of Artificial Intelligence higher than the global average. “India's swift adoption of AI is redefining its competitive edge globally, with 30 per cent of Indian companies having maximized AI's value potential--surpassing the global average of 26 per cent. With 100 per cent of companies actively experimenting with AI, India …

Tech Titans' Tightrope Dance: India's AI Ambitions and Global Tech Giants
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tech Titans' Tightrope Dance: India's AI Ambitions and Global Tech Giants

Live Mint  

India's growing prominence on the global tech stage is attracting industry heavyweights, though not without friction. The country's IT sector is globally renowned not just for its scale but also for its deep expertise in computer science. However, India recognizes that achieving self-reliance requires collaboration with global tech giants. The government's push aligns with Modi's vision of Viksit Bharat (Progressive …

Tech Titans Flock to India: A Strategic Play for the Future of AI
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tech Titans Flock to India: A Strategic Play for the Future of AI

Live Mint  

Top tech executives are visiting India to explore opportunities for co-creating intellectual properties in tech, as India is the second-largest developer base in the world after the US. With vast sections of the world’s developer ecosystem either based in India or originating in the region, a concerted effort from the Centre is pushing Indian firms to build foundational technologies. This …

Meta, IndiaAI Launch Collaborative Initiative to Enhance AI Skills in India
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Meta, IndiaAI Launch Collaborative Initiative to Enhance AI Skills in India

India Today  

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw meets with Meta's AI chief to explore collaboration opportunities in artificial intelligence. The partnership will focus on job creation and skill development in India, with a particular emphasis on the training of 100,000 students and young developers in open-source large language models (LLMs).

Nvidia's AI Push for India: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Nvidia's AI Push for India: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity

Live Mint  

Nvidia's Huang advocates for India to focus on developing local infrastructure and capabilities for exporting artificial intelligence (AI) rather than manufacturing semiconductors that power the AI revolution. He believes that India has the vast amounts of data to train AI models and the renewable energy to power the computation infrastructure, making it a significant opportunity for AI export.

Nvidia and Reliance to Build AI Infrastructure in India, Boosting Local Capabilities and Global Leadership
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Nvidia and Reliance to Build AI Infrastructure in India, Boosting Local Capabilities and Global Leadership

The Hindu  

Nvidia and Reliance Industries announce a major partnership to build an AI computing infrastructure in India. The partnership will include the construction of a new major data center using Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips, as well as the creation of an innovation center in the country. The collaboration aims to enhance local capabilities and position India as a significant player in …

India: A Crucial Hub for AI Innovation
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

India: A Crucial Hub for AI Innovation

Firstpost  

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlights India's crucial role in the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The company is forging partnerships with some of the nation's biggest corporate players to build AI infrastructure in India, with a rapidly growing digital economy and burgeoning tech ambitions, India is emerging as a strategic hub for NVIDIA's global AI goals.

Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Meta's LeCun Seeks to Shape India's AI Future: A Vision for Open-Source Innovation

The Hindu  

Meta's LeCun highlights India's potential in shaping the future of AI. He emphasizes the country's talent pool, vibrant tech ecosystem, and open-source approach as key drivers of AI innovation. Meta's vision for AI focuses on empowering individuals and driving societal transformation through AI. The country's focus on frugal engineering and low-cost development of AI models will promote AI inclusion and …

AI, AI Captain: India Tops Global Rankings in Skills, GitHub Projects, 40th in Readiness: MoS IT to Parliament
4 months, 2 weeks ago

AI, AI Captain: India Tops Global Rankings in Skills, GitHub Projects, 40th in Readiness: MoS IT to Parliament

News 18  

While India ranks first in Artificial Intelligence Skill Penetration and first in the number of GitHub AI Projects in the Stanford AI Index report 2024, in the Oxford AI Readiness Index, India is ranked 40th, reflecting the country’s ongoing efforts to strengthen its AI infrastructure, Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, recently told Parliament. Prasada emphasised …

Economic Survey | AI casts “huge pall of uncertainty” over jobs
5 months ago

Economic Survey | AI casts “huge pall of uncertainty” over jobs

The Hindu  

The Economic Survey published on Monday warned against the potential challenge that artificial intelligence could present to the Indian economy saying the “advent of the tech casts a huge pall of uncertainty as to its impact on workers across all skill levels – low, semi and high.” The massive changes owing to widespread adoption of AI “will create barriers and …

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election
5 months, 3 weeks ago

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

Wired  

French president Emmanuel Macron has spent years dreaming aloud of a homegrown artificial intelligence giant. Like Altman, Mensch was able to command vast amounts of capital: Mistral’s $6 billion valuation fell far short of OpenAI’s $80 billion price tag, but still—this was validation. Yet when Macron called a shock snap election earlier this month, the AI industry quickly began to …

India's AI Spending Forecasted to Reach $5.1 Billion by 2027: Intel-IDC Report
7 months, 1 week ago

India's AI Spending Forecasted to Reach $5.1 Billion by 2027: Intel-IDC Report

News 18  

Intel and IDC have unveiled a joint report assessing the Artificial Intelligence maturity level across eight markets, including India. The report highlighted that India’s AI spending is forecasted to experience the swiftest expansion among the examined markets, with a projected Compound Annual Growth Rate of 31.5 per cent from 2023, reaching $5.1 billion by 2027. According to the report, India, …

India’s AI leap: bridging the gap
9 months, 1 week ago

India’s AI leap: bridging the gap

Live Mint  

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union government have been talking about ‘Making AI in India’ and ‘Making AI Work for India’ for some time now, there was a worry that the lack of powerful AI compute infrastructure could hold India’s AI ambitions back. The money allocated to help build the all-critical GPU infrastructure through a public-private partnership model …

Mission possible for Battlefield AI
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Mission possible for Battlefield AI

Hindustan Times  

The India AI Mission, approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday, could give Artificial Intelligence development in the country the quantum leap it needs. The mission eyes a comprehensive bolstering of the AI ecosystem — from setting up adequate computing power to facilitating access to anonymised datasets, even establishing a pipeline for AI talent. India’s size and diversity make it imperative …

India to invest $1.2 billion in AI infrastructure, startups; Ambani's Reliance to lead the race
9 months, 2 weeks ago

India to invest $1.2 billion in AI infrastructure, startups; Ambani's Reliance to lead the race

Hindustan Times  

India will invest $1.2 billion in a wide range of artificial intelligence projects as the world's most populous country stakes a claim to the burgeoning sector. Junior minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the investment "will catalyze India's AI ecosystem and position it as a force shaping the future of AI for India and for the world". OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman …

India’s AI market seen touching $17 billion by 2027: Report
10 months ago

India’s AI market seen touching $17 billion by 2027: Report

The Hindu  

February 21, 2024 10:16 am | Updated 12:24 pm IST - MUMBAI India’s artificial intelligence market is projected to touch $17 billion by 2027, growing at an annualised rate of 25-35% between 2024 and 2027, IT industry body Nasscom and consulting firm BCG said on Tuesday, citing a joint report studying AI-powered tech in the country. The growth is seen …

India's AI market to reach USD 17 billion by 2027: Nasscom
10 months ago

India's AI market to reach USD 17 billion by 2027: Nasscom

India TV News  

India’s artificial intelligence market is booming, and it is likely to grow at a 25 per cent compound annual growth rate to reach USD 17 billion by 2027, with similar growth in artificial intelligence investments. This growth has been fueled by multiple factors which include increasing enterprise tech spending, India’s growing AI talent base and a significant increase in AI …

“Foundational models aren’t everything in AI,” Intel executive says
1 year ago

“Foundational models aren’t everything in AI,” Intel executive says

The Hindu  

Intel has been making chipsets in the Asia Pacific region for over five decades. At Intel’s ConnectiON 2023 event, held in Bengaluru, Alexis Crowell, Intel’s VP and CTO for the APAC region, shared with The Hindu the chipmaker’s plans for the region Edited excerpts: There’s no update on Intel building a new fab in India yet but what is our …

India\'s AI Programme to Drive $1 Trillion Digital Economy by 2026: MoS Rajeev
1 year, 2 months ago

India\'s AI Programme to Drive $1 Trillion Digital Economy by 2026: MoS Rajeev

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The government is hopeful that India's artificial intelligence programme is likely to be a kinetic enabler for India to achieve the goal of a $1-trillion digital economy by 2026. “This is a deep, multi-year roadmap to make Indian AI work for being a kinetic enabler of the trillion dollar digital economy,” Chandrasekhar said. “Äpart from supporting the startup …

AI's potential in enhancing India's tech ecosystem vast: PM Modi
1 year, 6 months ago

AI's potential in enhancing India's tech ecosystem vast: PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on June 9 and said that artificial intelligence's potential in enhancing India's tech ecosystem is vast, among the youth in particular. Earlier, Mr. Altman said in a tweet, "Great conversation with @narendramodi discussing india's incredible tech ecosystem and how the country can benefit from ai. The potential of …

India Under Spotlight As Tech Giants Ramp Up AI Talent Hunt
1 year, 7 months ago

India Under Spotlight As Tech Giants Ramp Up AI Talent Hunt

ABP News  

The demand for data scientists, machine learning specialists, and skilled engineers is rapidly increasing due to an AI hiring frenzy taking place around the world. India's tech industry is built on a plentiful supply of affordable workers, and now, even the world's most populous nation is running out of the skilled engineers, data scientists, and machine-learning specialists that companies are …

Demand for AI jobs in India are up by 11% amid talent scarcity
1 year, 7 months ago

Demand for AI jobs in India are up by 11% amid talent scarcity

India TV News  

The demand for artificial intelligence talent has grown by 11 per cent in India over the last six months, driven by job demands in sectors like IT, BFSI, retail, telecom, and advertising/market research sectors, a report stated. The Indian job market will witness a 22 per cent churn over the next five years with top emerging roles coming from AI, …

India must embrace techno-globalism
1 year, 8 months ago

India must embrace techno-globalism

Hindustan Times  

2023 will likely mark an inflection point in humankind’s quest for Artificial Intelligence. The role of open science is best exemplified by the developments in 2017, when Google Brain and Google Research scholars introduced a new network architecture called “Transformer”, which forms the bedrock of ChatGPT-like models. Similarly, Meta released a model called LLaMA or Large Language Model Meta AI …

India’s AI penetration factor at 3.09, highest among all G20, OECD countries: Nasscom
1 year, 10 months ago

India’s AI penetration factor at 3.09, highest among all G20, OECD countries: Nasscom

The Hindu  

India ranked first in terms of Artificial Intelligence skill penetration and AI talent concentration and 5th in AI scientific publications, according to a report titled, “State of Data Science and AI Skills in India: Data and the Art of Smart Intelligence, prepared by Nasscom in association with Salesforce and Draup. In fact, India’s AI Skills Penetration Factor has been reported …

India’s AI market likely to see 20% growth over next five years: Report
2 years, 5 months ago

India’s AI market likely to see 20% growth over next five years: Report

Hindustan Times  

India’s artificial intelligence market is expected to witness a growth of 20% over the next five years, and the country is among the top three talent markets, producing 16% of the world’s AI talent pool, a joint study conducted by Microsoft and the Internet and Mobile Association of India has revealed. “Artificial intelligence is no longer a fringe technology for …

Intel India sets up centre for artificial intelligence
4 years, 2 months ago

Intel India sets up centre for artificial intelligence

The Hindu  

Intel India said it had partnered IIIT Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India and the Telangana government to unveil a research centre to focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to solve India’s population-scale challenges in sectors such as healthcare and smart mobility. The applied AI research centre, INAI, here will act as a catalyst to accelerate India’s leadership in AI while …

India will be among global AI superpowers: Brad Smith
4 years, 2 months ago

India will be among global AI superpowers: Brad Smith

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: India will inevitably be one of the world’s artificial intelligence superpowers, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer, Microsoft Corp. said at the ongoing Responsible AI for Social Empowerment event. Smith indicated that India’s national strategy on AI is the right foundation, not just to advance AI but also topromote responsible AI built on firm ethical principles. Smith said …

Investing in data, AI is crucial for country
4 years, 4 months ago

Investing in data, AI is crucial for country

Live Mint  

BENGALURU :India has the right ecosystem and an efficient talent pool to create millions of new-age jobs and drive a data and artificial intelligence revolution to become a global powerhouse, said top executives of Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd at a panel discussion organized by IT industry body Nasscom on Tuesday. “We have to identify a comprehensive plan for India’s …

Half of Indian Workforce Will be Equipped With AI Skills in the Next 10 Years: Microsoft
4 years, 4 months ago

Half of Indian Workforce Will be Equipped With AI Skills in the Next 10 Years: Microsoft

News 18  

The organisations that have deployed Artificial Intelligence with skilling initiatives in India are generating most value from this new-age technology, and senior executives predict that half of all employees will be equipped with AI skills in the next 6-10 years, a new Microsoft survey said on Monday. In India, all AI-leading companies said they are actively building skills of their …

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