JAKARTA - Former Chief Architect Intel Corp, Raja Koduri, is in talks with data center operator backed by Hiranandani, Yotta, for an agreement with his AI company. The unnamed generative AI startup will have a large presence in India.
The company will launch later this year and will provide makers with AI tools, including game designers and film industry workers, the Indian-American executive said in an interview with Reuters.
"Right now, if you're breathing, you're competing with Nvidia because they've entered every room, everything, so you have no choice but to compete against it," Koduri said.
Koduri, which has worked on nearly twenty-two generations of computer graphics chips, plans to build a local data center to facilitate access to the huge computing power needed for generative AI tools.
However, the data center's plans will face challenges from the instability of electricity supply, lack of skilled labor, and a clear lack of policies from local and central governments.
"Karnataka and Telangana have been very supportive", said Koduri. He added that subsidies to electricity will be very important because data centers require a lot of energy.
Koduri did not reveal how many people his company would hire, but said that "large numbers" would be recruited from southern cities such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
He will also join the board of directors of chip startups AI Tenstorrent, led by veteran chip architect Jim Keller, who led Tesla's self-driving chip design in 2016. Tensorrent uses RISC-V open-source technology to build its chips.
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