NVIDIA CEO Says India Has Great Potential For World AI Development

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (photo: NVIDIA)

JAKARTA - NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang stated that artificial intelligence (AI) will become the basis and driving force for digital transformation in the world to encourage innovation, economic growth, and global leadership.

At the NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai, Huang emphasized how India's great potential in IT and computer science, as well as abundant data resources.

To capitalize on the country's talent and huge Indian data resources, the country's leading cloud infrastructure provider is rapidly increasing the capacity of their data centers.

In this case, NVIDIA plays an important role in increasing the capacity of data centers in India, with the distribution of NVIDIA GPUs projected to grow almost 10 times by the end of the year.

Huang calls AI a growing "industry of intelligence", with India having unique powers to take the lead thanks to the large population and extensive data.

In a talk session with Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, the two discussed the impact of AI on the energy, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors. Reliance with NVIDIA built an AI plant to automate industry in India.

In addition, Huang describes three main areas of AI transformation: AI sovereignty, AI agents for knowledge automation, and physical AIs that use robotics.

Huang also considered that India has a unique position in these three areas. NVIDIA is also collaborating with big Indian companies to train half a million developers to be ready to face the AI-based future.

Ending the session, Huang and Amani agreed to work together to realize AI India's future vision, making it a country with great influence in the global economy.