Building India's AI Backbone

In an interview with BW Businessworld's Rohit Chintapali, SUNIL GUPTA, Co-founder, MD & CEO, Yotta Data Services, discusses India's current position in the global AI landscape and the explosive growth ahead in GPU demand and LLMs. Excerpts

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You were recently at Nvidia's flagship event, GTC, what were your observations on India-related AI developments from that vantage?

One key takeaway from GTC is that today, India is no-where in the global AI scene compared to the US and other regions. I heard about a sovereign LLM launched successfully in Indonesia by Insat and similar developments are happening elsewhere. The US and China are far ahead.

India has huge potential and could become one of the largest markets for AI training and inferencing, but right now, it's not in the picture. The opportunity lies in investing across the full AI stack - from compute to data systems, models and applications.

Give us a picture of what's coming for India, in terms of AI largely and AI infrastructure market...