Nvidia is AI in India: Jensen Huang big pitch at Mumbai summit

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

Nvidia will have nearly 20 times more computing power in India by the end of 2024 than it did over a year ago, chief executive officer of the world’s biggest chipmaker Jensen Huang has said.

Speaking to thousands of tech enthusiasts at the Nvidia’s AI Summit in Mumbai on October 24, Huang was optimistic about the role India would play in developing artificial intelligence (AI).

“Our job is to help India build and deploy AI, and your job is to take… (India’s) incredible IT capability so that we can create agents and help every single company,” Huang said.

The biggest challenge, according to Huang, is building a Hindi large language model (LLM). Once India is able to solve that problem, the next logical step is to create application layer above that. And, for this Nvidia is working with companies to bring AI to the ecosystem of India.

He talked about Nvidia collaborations with major Indian service partners like TCS, Infosys, and Wipro to extend AI models and infrastructure to enterprises globally. He said the emergence of AI is a new industrial revolution, at enormous scale.

“Our service partners from Wipro to Infosys to TCS, working with us to take the AI models and the AI infrastructure out to the world's enterprises. Now that's Nvidia in India,” he said.

LLM is an advanced AI system trained on vast amounts of data to understand, generate, and respond to human language across various tasks and contexts.

Huang shared the stage with Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, discussing AI and India's potential as a global AI leader. Ambani echoed Huang’s sentiments, saying India would eventually use intelligent services beyond software to integrate with the rest of the world by driving AI.

“Indians will not only export CEOs to the world’s largest companies but hundreds of millions of Indians will deliver such AI services,” Ambani said.

Recalling his discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Huang said India should manufacture its own AI and that the country should not export data to import intelligence.

Huang recalled how he was invited to address the cabinet about AI six years ago, which was highly unusual during those days when the tech barely qualified as a conversation. He highlighted the need to add value to data domestically and the partnership with India to build the necessary infrastructure.

The chip design giant is also working with India’s home-grown data centre company Yotta to build a fundamental computing infrastructure in India.

“India was earlier focused on IT, the back office, and delivering of software. The next generation of IT is going to be about producing and delivering AI,” Huang said.

He said India has the fundamental ingredients required to create an AI flywheel — data and AI infrastructure and a large user population.

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