Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met with Jensen Huang, the CEO of the leading AI company Nvidia. Their lengthy conversation was centred on the “rich potential” India presents in the field of AI.
In a tweet posted on X (formerly Twitter), Prime Minister Modi shared the positive outcomes of their discussion saying, “Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of @nvidia. We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI. “Mr. Jensen Huang was appreciative of the strides India has made in this sector and was equally upbeat about the talented youth of India,” the prime minister tweeted.
Nvidia has established a robust technological relationship with India, as highlighted by recent developments. Less than a week prior to this meeting, Industry.AI, a member of Nvidia’s Metropolis vision AI partner ecosystem, implemented its vision AI platform at a major airport in India’s Silicon Valley.
Annually around 32 million people travel through Bengaluru airport making it an important destination for deploying emerging technologies. The hub’s recently built terminal, T2 saw a debut at scale for intelligent video analytics at an Indian airport with this deployment.
Industry.AI uses a combination of NVIDIA’s TAO Toolkit and A100 Tensor Core GPUs to train its AI models. The company’s AI inference operations are facilitated by NVIDIA’s Triton Inference Server with A30 Tensor Core GPUs. Furthermore, Industry.AI has integrated NVIDIA’s DeepStream sdk for AI-enhanced video analytics.
Interestingly, last year during the company’s annual GTC Summit Huang underscored the company’s substantial interests in India. He mentioned, “Our three largest geographies are California, China and India, with India being slightly larger than China.” He also expressed keen interest in India’s talent pool, urging those in the AI community to work with the company.
He went on to praise the country, saying, “I believe that AI is going to absolutely revolutionise the tech industry in India. The number of startups in India is skyrocketing, and every single one of them relies on AI.” Even if it is less likely that India could create original algorithms, there was a hunger to learn, he said.
