Global AI Conclave Highlights: Karya.ai founder says AI's impact comparable to internet, urges inclusive access for all

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Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: The significance of chip packaging in employment creation

Chris Miller says, "I think it's very understandable to focus on chip design as it has a large value addition. But if you want to give a lot of jobs to low paid workers, then chip packaging seems a good way to go."

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Governments face common AI dilemma, to train own models or embrace open source, says Chris Miller

Not just India, all governments are thinking whether to train their own AI models or use open source models, says Chris Miller

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Chris Miller commends Bengaluru's chip design prowess

If we look at Bangalore, we see 10,000 people working on chip Industry. This is a solid foundation to start off with. Tens of thousands of people in Bengaluru work in the chip design industry. That's an extraordinary base to build on which most countries don't have, says Chris Miller, Author - Chip War & Associate Professor - The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Chris Miller highlights precision in efficient chipmaking

We produce a trillion chips a year globally. We have learnt to build them very well. Chipmaking is concentrated in a few countries and between a few players because it has to be very efficient and precise, says Chris Miller, Author - Chip War & Associate Professor - The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Peak XV MD Shailendra Singh optimistic about tech investing surge

- Times when capital is scarce are very good times. Not because we want better deals but because it pushes founders to be more efficient. Tech investing will pick up very rapidly in the next few months. We’ve made 28 investments in the seed and surge pocket. We’ve been very active especially in the early stage.

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Health, agriculture, and education to witness pioneering use cases, says Prashanth Prakash

Prashanth Prakash, Founding Partner Accel, Chairman Vision Group for Startup's, Govt of Karnataka says:

- Healthcare will see more viable AI usecases even before education

- For a farmer or any agri worker Google is still intimidating, they cannot find a usecase. AI might solve this. We will see more usecases in Healtcare, Agri and education.

- Early AI adoption in Bharat requires a philanthropic money and grants, at least in the initial phases. However the value or the leverage out of it is very fascinating. This is like NGO 2.0.

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Karya.ai CEO Introduces innovative chatbot model for tuberculosis

Manu Chopra Founder & CEO, Karya.ai, says 'We just finished building a model which would work as a chatbot for tuberculosis patients'

Global AI Conclave' LIVE Update: Prashanth Prakash urges urgent disruption in global health and education through AI innovation

Prashanth Prakash, Founding Partner Accel, Chairman Vision Group for Startup's, Govt of Karnataka, says:

- After 75 years quality of health, education... We have still not come a long way. We don't have another 75 years. I think a combination of next level disruptive thinking is needed.

- While we serve AI to solve for healthcare and education, we also need to think about how we can make the whole world participate in this big AI revolution.

- I think we need to evolve AI for Bharat, the ability to find more Karya like model is important and we also need to find usage within healthcare and other areas.

- In education, hyper personalisation is significant and there is a startup called Ariviyan to help early childhood learning in local languages.

- I can have test prep models built of chatGPT deployed in rural india, however if the cost is too high it is not viable. This is where some of the Indian models should come in.

- We are in very early formative days, some are in research, some are yet to scale in AI models for education.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Manu Chopra says AI's impact comparable to internet, urges inclusive access for all

"AI represents a fundamental technological shift, last time it happened was when internet came out.
When I think about AI, we simply cannot afford to lose out an entire population to access. Just like what internet did. Our goal is to train rural communities to take up roles in AI and provide financial literacy. Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not, says Manu Chopra, Founder & CEO, Karya.ai.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Priyank Kharge explores the concept of an innovation authority to navigate emerging technologies

"What we are trying to do is trying to see if we can come up with a innovation authority. If there is a tech that is coming up, then the innovation authority can read, research and work on policies," says Priyank Kharge.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Zepto's Kaivalya Vohra acknowledges global AI advancements in business

"Not just Swiggy, a lot of companies worldwide have been doing a lot of exceptional work on AI. We’ve been building on top of that so we didn’t have to reinvent the wheeel. 40% of our business is perishable so we’ve been using AI to manage supply chain. If there’s a first time customer, we use AI to track the route," says Kaivalya Vohra, Co-Founder & CTO, Zepto.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Manipal Health CEO Dilip Jose highlights faster recovery with AI and fitbit in post-angioplasty patients

"We have a venture withe Google health, we give a fitbit to a patient who just had a heart angioplasty and can track them. We are seeing recovery faster in them. AI in healthcare should be a little careful. We have to use AI and be cautious that we take the business angle out of it when it comes to healthcare. Over a period of just five years, the data that healthcare institutions have is massive. But one has to be careful about how this data can be used," says Dilip Jose, MD & CEO, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: EY's Mahesh Makhija stresses crucial role of policies in shaping India's AI landscape


Mahesh Makhija, India Technology Consulting Leader, EY, says, "The policy and the regulatory aspect of AI is very important. In India if we could have privacy protected data sets, we will have much better foundational models."

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Priyank Kharge highlights government's role in AI Startup pilots

"Why can't government be the first customer for many of the AI startups? Government is going to play a role in this and we will make startups to come and pilot with us. We have global innovation alliance where we collaborate with multiple countries," says Priynak Kharge.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Government prioritizes skill development as cornerstone for AI innovation, says Priynak Kharge

"We are doing some important things that are crucial to AI ecosystem. Number one is skilling. The government understands the foundation for any innovation that can happen is only through skills and we are deveoping this. We are coming up with centres of excellence in health sciences, life sciences and medical products where startups can come and work with us," says Priynak Kharge.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Bengaluru home to 44 unicorns, AI excellence earns 5th place on the global stage, says Priyank Kharge

We have 44 unicorns and 57 soon to be unicorns here in Bengaluru. We are considered the fifth best city in AI adoption in the world: Priyank Kharge

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Bengaluru contributes $186 billion to India's $384 billion startup unicorn valuation, says Priyank Kharge

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: From call center hub to AI capital, Bengaluru puts innovation at the forefront, says Priyank Kharge

"There are no doubts Bangalore can be the AI capital. We have matured from being a call centre of the world to leading R&D centre to now being the most disruptive city in terms of innovation," says Priyank Kharge, Karnataka Minister for IT & Biotechnology, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Healthify CEO says AI's unmatched insights surpass human advice

Tushar Vashisht, Co-founder & CEO, Healthify, says, "AI can do so much more in terms of insights. No way humans can match to AI in terms of advice. AI oriented advice has 30 percent retention. It is better than humans."

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: HealthifyMe revolutionizes coaching with AI

Tushar Vashisht, Co-founder & CEO, Healthify, says, "Started AI to help coaching to do the jobs, to build diet plans. And this allowed us to handle 250 clients to a coach, up from 40 clients per coach. Three components in healthcare where AI can be used-human accountability, input of data."

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Narayana Health's Vice Chairman foresees AI's role in healthcare, emphasizing diagnosis and beyond

Viren Shetty, Vice Chairman, Narayana Health says:

- Potential for AI in healthcare is in diagnosis, and other aspects of healthcare

- At this point, Gen AI is yet to be embedded in our general operations. It will be useful in the future.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Monika Garg stresses neutrality of technology, highlights its crucial role in achieving life goals

Monika Garg, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh, emphasized that resistance is a natural response to change, but technology itself is neutral. He believes that when individuals have a clear life goal, technology becomes a tool to achieve it.

Garg says utilizing technology is essential for maintaining control over our life, and added their team is introducing AI in schools.

Monika Garg says, "Resistance happens to any change. Technology is not bad. When you know what you want in life, tech will get it for you. When you don’t know, tech will get it for you. When you want to retain control of your life, you need tech. Our team is taking AI to schools. There is a need to revamp the educational infrastructure of our country. Startups should build in pre schools and primary education for AI."

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Youth talent, and citizen awareness pillars of tech progress, says Ashok Jhunjhunwala

- Today we are talking about computers, super computers and processors. However connectivity plays a significant role.

- There are two other important things to leverage one is young talent or the youth of India. And finally the citizens who need to be conscious.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Ashok Jhunjhunwala calls for AI solutions to alleviate unemployment and rural poverty

Ashok Jhunjhunwala says:

- AI is a great tool but we need to thunk about how this is solve difficult problems. How it can help our society.

- Can AI help us solve the huge income divide that we have. Or can it solve the huge global warming problem can be solved.

- We have 25 million Indians becoming 21 years world, if we do not employ them their only option will be to become an obstacle. We need to use all AI resources tools to solve this

- 65% of the people are living in rural areas, people are living on Rs 10,000 Rs per month of income, I think we need to use AI tools to solve these problems.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Ashok Jhunjhunwala celebrates the success story of UPI

In 2007 mobile payments forum was formed. We created NPCI and started working on UPI. We thought this dream will never be fulfilled, today we know the power of UPI, says Ashok Jhunjhunwala.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Ashok Jhunjhunwala envisions a thriving Startup ecosystem with young leaders

"There are things in which we acquire leadership and those leaderships are formed with right guidance to youngsters," says Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor, IIT Madras & President, IITM Research Park, IITM Incubation Cell & RTBI

"At least half a million of graduates in India are given the right chance, the guidance they can make wonders. This is the basis for all startups. If we can learn to tap them and encourage them, they can do wonders," says Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Insights on responsible data practices and AI governance

- "Having responsible data practices is important. Ethical and consent-based access to data is significant. Having the right governance to access that data becomes very important."

- "There needs to be guardrails in place for responsible AI. Imagine an AI model used for creating medicine can also be used to create a bio weapon."

- "Today, we need to make sure there is regulation as well as innovation. We are running the world's largest enterprises as well as small and medium businesses. Around 8 out of 10 cars are made by SAP's customers. The trust that our customers have in us comes from a lot of responsibility."

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Mary Snapp on responsible AI development and user transparency

"Responsible nations need to move forward with AI and regulations no matter what. We think that we are getting alignment from more countries. Give end users transparency if something is AI-generated, if the risk is moderate or less." - Mary Snapp, Vice President, Strategic AI Initiatives, Microsoft

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Mary Snapp, Microsoft VP, on OpenAI governance amid board changes

"We got to know only a few moments before the media published it... About Sam getting removed from the board... governance will be important now." - Mary Snapp, Vice President, Strategic AI Initiatives, Microsoft

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Rajeev Chandrasekhar's call to young tech enthusiasts, embrace the most exciting time in India's history

"If you are a young techi starting out, this must be the most exciting time, and you guys are lucky. This is the luckiest generation in India's history. Please use this opportunity." - Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Propelling India to a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2026, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

There is a huge opportunity of trillion dollaar digital economy. We are halfway there. We want to get there by 2026. We will work 24 hours a week, 7 days a week to get there

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Rajeev Chandrasekhar on deepfakes and legal accountability

"In a society like ours, with 820 million on the internet, soon to be 1.2 billion, the growing phenomenon of deepfakes is a big problem. In a country like ours where the electoral process is sacrosanct, deepfake can create problems. Deepfakes are now actionable under criminal law." - Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Rajeev Chandrasekhar on internet toxicity and jurisdictional challenges

The toxicity on the internet has shown us that, notwithstanding laws, 80 percent of the crimes on the internet are extra-judicial. The perpetrator, victim, and platforms are in different jurisdictions.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Rajeev Chandrasekhar's perspective on legal accountability and guardrails in AI regulation

"Our approach on AI is about casting legal accountability on platforms for safety and trust. In the next 6 months, there would be a multilateral understanding of what should be the guardrails to regulate AI." - Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Rajeev Chandrasekhar on academia

- Talent is a much more fundamental challenge in AI. We need universities to churn out masters and PhDs in AI. Talent is something that keeps me away. The infrastructure pieces will get solved very quickly
- 15 years ago you measured academic institution is wmhow many got hired by Google or went abroad. Now it is about what kind of platforms the students are building for the world
- Academic Institutions love pushing out degrees. The way we measure the quality of Institutions is very different. Today Institutions are measured based on how many of the stydents go out and build somwthing

Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Fostering an AI ecosystem with a focus on compute-side startups, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

We know what it will take to make India AI successful. We understand that we need to catalyse a global standard ecosystem for our AI innovation ecosystem says IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Dr. Manish Gupta, Google, on project Vaani and inclusive speech data

"At Google, we have embarked on a journey with IISc on Project Vaani, aiming to connect speech data from every one of the 773 districts in India. We've completed phase one, collecting data from 85 districts." - Dr. Manish Gupta, Google

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Dr. Manish Gupta, Google's Director of research, on inclusive AI

"At Google, we've been working on the theme of inclusive AI. How do we develop AI in a manner that brings benefits to billions of new people." - Dr. Manish Gupta, Director - Research, Google

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: The evolution of AI, a future where AI bots surpass human responses

"There will come a time when you will actually get better responses from AI bots than human responses. The fact that there is a tremendous shortage of GPUs will slowly ease. We may find out that there are many more important problems that people will try to resolve." - Vivek

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Leveraging AI as a business tool for enhanced effectiveness

The interesting thing is AI is a tool and it has to be used within business processes. People who leverage AI will be more effective than those who don't, and the same holds true for organizations. You won't know the difference until it becomes evident.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Dr. Vivek Raghavan on emerging trends in Indian deep tech

There's a new trend in India where investors are considering backing deep tech companies. When the concept of Gen AI emerged, I thought about making a difference in this space. We wanted to build something in continuation of what we had been doing—making Gen AI available and accessible to people widely." - Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Founder, Sarvam AI

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Cerebras Founder Andrew Feldman discusses plans for AI infrastructure in India

Nvidia challenger Cerebras is engaged in discussions with the Indian government to enhance the country's AI compute infrastructure, as revealed by Cerebras founder Andrew Feldman at the CNBC-TV18 and Moneycontrol Global AI Conclave. Following his recent visit to Delhi, Feldman emphasized India's significant opportunity due to the insufficient presence of data centers and supercomputers. Cerebras, known for its innovative chip-making approach, plans to double its technology team in Bengaluru in the coming years, expressing a commitment to contribute to India's AI advancement.

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Andrew Feldman on quantum tech realities

"For production work in quantum tech, we are not there yet today. Not 5 or 10 years, but a long way out. There is a lot of hubris in the quantum community. It's a journey that should be taken, but quantum won't help problems of today like AI, database." - Andrew Feldman

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Andrew Feldman on building AI infrastructure in India

"In India, we met many AI thinkers and leaders. Getting government pronouncements, signing pieces of paper is the start. The hard work is after that when you build data centers; we have the hard work ahead of us." - Andrew Feldman

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Andrew Feldman's talks about his Delhi visit, says we see tremendous opportunity in India's data center landscape

"I was in Delhi 10 days ago and met with government officials. India doesn't have enough data centers and supercomputers. It's a tremendous opportunity. I hope we can do great work in India." - Andrew Feldman

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Andrew Feldman's competitive drive, outperforming Nvidia

"We spend our time figuring out how to be better than Nvidia." - Andrew Feldman

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Andrew Feldman on AI challenges, unraveling the complexity of information movement

- Graphic Processors in AI: "Why would a machine process for graphics work be good at AI? What turns out to be really hard about AI is the movement of information."

- Ambitious AI Supercomputers: "We will build the 9 largest AI supercomputers in the world. By next year, we will build 36 exaflops of AI compute."

- Models and Compute Demand: "While Sam Altman has said the models won't get bigger, he has the biggest models. The question is not do we need less compute. The question is infinite demand for compute."

- Global AI Workforce: "We have 38 people in Bengaluru and will double next year and the year after. We do AI developer work in Bengaluru. We don't divide work by region. We can find exceptional people to lead projects out of Bangalore, Toronto, or California." - Andrew Feldman

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Swapna Bapat on evolving cyber threats and AI defence

- Sophisticated Phishing Attacks: "It’s easier now to create a sophisticated phishing attack."

- Democratization of AI: "Take models, train them; you don’t need a master's degree anymore. The scale of attacks is going to be massive."

- Expanded Attack Surface: "From marketing to finance, all can use AI. The attack surface has increased, aiding attackers."

- AI in Image Recognition: "AI has been used in image recognition, but there needs to be an ability to recognize text and prevent leaks. We’re doing that."

- Reduced Response Time: "AI has reduced the median response time, especially in cybersecurity. Time to detect has come down significantly. We're dealing with millions of attacks."

- Swift Breach Detection: "We now detect a breach in 10 seconds. The response time is down." - Swapna Bapat

Global AI Conclave LIVE Update: Global AI Conclave LIVE Updates: Best payment anomaly model will be coning from India, says iSPIRTS Co-Founder Sharad Sharma

You might find world's best payment anomaly AI model come come from UPI and another global payments system, not WeChat or Alipay. This is because UPI is diverse: Sharad Sharma