Wingify founder Paras Chopra is recruiting to build India’s foundational AI lab

It was decided to launch a foundational AI model after India Inc and other AI experts debated whether the country should build its own LLM.

Vaishnaw said proposals for AI model development would be invited starting January 30, with an expected development timeline of four to eight months.

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Paras said hard and complex problem solving is the bedrock of all economic growth. "If we crack super-intelligent reasoning models that think creatively, we will turbocharge the growth and have a real chance of solving many of the world's current unsolved problems like poverty, cancer, and the mysteries of universe and consciousness," Chopra wrote on the social media platform.

He listed three reasons why focus on efficiency is important. Firstly, unlike western Al labs, India does not have a billion dollars to spend on GPUs at the start. Secondly, this will force the country to look at problems from a fresh perspective, as constraints will lead to reasoning creativity. Lastly, Chopra said he is inspired by the efficiency of the human brain which has made itself energy and data-efficient.

"Within reasoning, we have a lot of attack vectors for efficiency: e.g. explore tools, RL, distillation, pruning, representations, state space models for linear time inference, neurosymbolic reasoning, test time learning, etc," he wrote.