India's efforts to build its own AI playbook and its ambition to make a major impact in artificial intelligence caught the attention of Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. The billionaire CEO behind one of the world's largest IT companies and a leading PC vendor believes that India's strong economy, availability of technical talent and leading push in the AI ​​space will help India says it has become an attractive market for companies like .
“India has the talent and is a great resource for Dell and many other companies, but there is also a desire for sovereign AI,” he said at a roundtable at the Dell Technologies World event that kicked off in Las Vegas on Monday.
On the global stage, New Delhi is pitching itself as a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, with the goal of not just competing with generative AI models created by tech giants but also building its own AI ecosystem. This, however, requires nurturing AI talent, developing and deploying indigenous large-scale language models, as well as building an AI computing infrastructure from scratch. However, building a scalable AI computing infrastructure using the latest generation of GPUs may not be cheap. The recent Union Cabinet approval of a national-level Indian Artificial Intelligence Mission with a budgetary outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore has opened the door to building AI computing infrastructure and strengthening the local AI ecosystem through public-private partnerships.
Dell partners with Nvidia to accelerate AI integration in the enterprise. (Express photo)
India, along with countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates, are participating in a global race to shape the future of AI technology. Interest in AI has been on the rise since his November 2022 release of ChatGPT, a large-scale language model developed by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, which became a big hit. With fierce competition from Silicon Valley majors and AI nationalism at an all-time high, Indian startups are now developing their own models.
At the Las Vegas event, Dell announced significant advances in the implementation of artificial intelligence across a variety of sectors and highlighted how this technology can benefit businesses. We collaborated with Nvidia to introduce AI Factory to accelerate enterprise AI integration. As Dell and her Nvidia describe it, an AI Factory is an intelligent collection of components needed to quickly and smoothly deploy AI solutions.
“We are moving from computation to cognition and into the age of AI. It took years to bring electricity to buildings, but we can now automate tasks by building machines that plug into walls. That's the situation we're in when it comes to AI,'' Dell said to a packed room full of partners.
I am attending the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas at the invitation of Dell India.
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First upload date: May 21, 2024, 08:23 IST
