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During the NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a powerful message about India's potential to lead the global AI revolution. Addressing a diverse audience of entrepreneurs, developers, academics, and business leaders, Huang highlighted artificial intelligence as the cornerstone of India's digital transformation and future economic growth.
Key Points from Huang's Address include the following:
AI Infrastructure Expansion:
Huang announced that NVIDIA GPU deployments in India are expected to increase nearly tenfold by the end of the year, creating a robust foundation for an AI-driven economy. This significant expansion will support India's leading cloud infrastructure providers' rapid acceleration of data center capacity.
India's Unique Advantages:
The NVIDIA CEO emphasized India's "amazing natural resource" in its IT and computer science expertise and vast data resources. He positioned India as uniquely suited to lead in three critical areas of AI transformation:
- Sovereign AI: Utilizing national data for innovation
- Agentic AI: Automating knowledge-based work
- Physical AI: Applying AI to industrial tasks through robotics and autonomous systems
AI Factories and Local Innovation:
Huang stressed the importance of India manufacturing its AI, stating, "You should not export data to import intelligence." He envisions AI factories playing a crucial role in India's future, supporting the nation's AI-driven growth.
Collaboration with Indian Industry Leaders
The summit featured a fireside chat between Huang and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. The two leaders explored AI's potential to shape various Indian industries, including energy, telecommunications, and manufacturing.
Ambani highlighted Reliance's partnership with NVIDIA in building AI factories to automate industrial tasks and transform processes in key sectors. Both executives emphasized the importance of collaboration in bringing the "intelligence age" to India and the world.
Workforce Development and Global Impact
NVIDIA is partnering with Indian IT giants such as Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, and Wipro to upskill nearly half a million developers. This initiative ensures India leads the AI revolution with a highly trained workforce.
As the summit concluded, both Huang and Ambani expressed their vision for India's AI-driven future, emphasizing the country's potential to contribute globally in the energy, healthcare, finance, and manufacturing sectors.
The NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai has set the stage for India's ambitious journey towards becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence, with NVIDIA playing a pivotal role in supporting this transformation.