Nvidia CEO Hwang Jinxun recently highly praised India's remarkable achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. He particularly emphasized India's more than 2,000 AI companies participating in Nvidia's incubation program and more than 100,000 AI-trained developers, which demonstrates India's strong AI ecosystem strength around the world. This not only reflects India's strategic layout in the development of AI technology, but also confirms the concept of "sovereign AI" - the importance of countries independently building AI infrastructure to ensure data security. This article will explore in-depth the booming development of India's AI industry and the key role Nvidia plays in it.
At the recent Nvidia Artificial Intelligence Summit, CEO Jan-hon Huang expressed high recognition of India's achievements in artificial intelligence (AI). He pointed out that there are currently more than 2,000 AI companies participating in Nvidia's incubation program in India, as well as more than 100,000 AI-trained developers.
This number has more than 650,000 developers worldwide, fully demonstrating India's strategic layout in the development of AI technology. Huang Renxun calls it "sovereign AI", that is, countries choose to independently build their own AI infrastructure to protect data security.
India is rapidly rising as an AI production base in all walks of life, especially with the rise of countless startups, India's multilingual and multicultural background has provided a good soil for the development of AI technology. This year, India's startups have exceeded 100,000, surged from less than 500 in 2016, showing strong growth momentum.
At the summit, about 50 Indian startups shared their AI innovations in areas such as customer service, sports media, healthcare and robotics. Among them, CoRover.ai, located in Bangalore, has developed a dialogue AI platform based on a large language model, with more than 1 billion users. The platform serves as a multimodal chatbot for Indian Railways catering and tourism companies, AskDISHA, which processes more than 150,000 user queries every day and has served more than 175 million passengers.
In addition, Nvidia also mentioned that VideoVerse, located in Mumbai, supports content creation in the sports media industry through Nvidia technology, helping customers generate exciting moments of the game more quickly and improve the audience's viewing experience. Startups such as Fluid AI and Karya are also actively leveraging AI technologies to improve enterprise efficiency and promote members of low-income communities to earn additional income through language tasks.
India is investing heavily in sovereign AI and working with Nvidia to build a multilingual AI model so that more people can interact with technology in their native language. It is worth mentioning that Nvidia has launched a small language model that supports Hindi, which has been applied to the development of the Indus2.0 AI model by Indian IT service company Tech Mahindra, focusing on Hindi and its services in many dialects.
To support the development of AI technology, cloud infrastructure providers and server manufacturers in India are increasing the capabilities of data centers, and Nvidia GPU deployment is expected to increase nearly 10 times by the end of the year compared to 18 months ago. These measures will provide strong computing resources for businesses, startups and research institutions in India to drive AI innovation.
Key points:
India has more than 2,000 AI companies incubated by Nvidia and 100,000 AI-trained developers to show a strong AI ecosystem.
CoRover.ai's AskDISHA chatbot has served more than 175 million passengers, significantly improving customer satisfaction.
India is building data centers and cloud infrastructure to support future AI technology innovation and application.
In short, the rapid development of India's AI industry is remarkable, and its strong technical strength and development potential are expected to make it an important force in the global AI field. Nvidia's active participation and support further accelerates this process, and the future is worth looking forward to.