Welfare for all....
Happiness of all
The AI Summit might have made news for certain wrong reasons. Thanks to Rahul Gandhi's frustration and anti India pitch. There was also a fraduluent university.
The future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries or left to the whims of a few billionaires,” said Guterres.
Nevertheless, the Summit highlighted India's expertise in IT services and its potential for population-scale deployment of AI in key sectors - health, agriculture znd education.
But it also highlighted India's limitations in the global AI race, including a lack of high-end computing infrastructure.
India is the fastest-growing market for OpenAI’s Codex coding tool.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a pitch for India to play a leading role in the artificial intelligence boom.
Indian economy is growing but still welfare measures and infra development need huge funds. On the other hand; AI is big money spinner and needs huge dollars. Where this capital intensive contest go and can India manage adequate funding?
French president Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe’s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from “digital abuse” during France’s presidency of the G7.
Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousands of sexualised images of children, and amid mounting concern about the concentration of AI power in a handful of companies.
PM Modi pushing for open AI .... Like inviting for innovation. But global south level; maybe we can do well. Again in India; there is a concern whether AI will impact job.
Indian IT industry has been service focused. This was wrong and it may hamper AI growth too. How do we come out of this stalemate ? Cognitive learning process might be affected too.
Modi positioned India as the tech leader of the Global South, with a model of AI development that sits between the corporate-led ecosystem of the US and state-backed China push.
Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang dropped out after early promotion; Bill Gates withdrew later.
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, had so much trouble getting through security that his speech — announcing the biggest deal of the India AI Impact Summit — was delayed.
Even so, Modi gave a forceful demonstration of the country’s influence. He gathered many of the most prominent names in the tech industry, including the chief executives of Alphabet Inc., OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, as well as the India-born CEOs of global corporate icons like FedEx Corp.
The prime day of the summit was so jam-packed that celebrity leaders like Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman were allocated a mere five to 12 minutes each.
“It’s one thing to say you’re the leader of the Global South and it’s another to come across as the leader of the Global South,” said Reema Bhattacharya, head of Asia risk insights at advisory firm Verisk Maplecroft.
“They’ve achieved what they wanted to achieve.”
An attempt by PM Modi to stage a show of unity among leading tech billionaires went awry when the rival heads of OpenAI and Anthropic awkwardly declined to hold hands on stage.
Modi stood at the centre of a line of 13 tech executives, including leaders from Google, Meta and Microsoft, who all raised clasped hands – apart from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. Amodei split from OpenAI in 2021 over differences over how to manage safety risks.
Modi is able to elicit effusive praise and big promises from industry and government leaders, with Ambani pledging $110 billion for building out artificial intelligence projects across India over the next seven years.
Speakers constantly praised the prime minister for his leadership.
But the country still lags in high-end computing infrastructure that’s necessary to build frontier large language models such as those produced by Silicon Valley companies or the coterie of Chinese upstarts, says an article by Bloomberg.
The fight for artificial intelligence supremacy is between open versus closed systems rather than where those systems are built, according to Mistral AI’s chief executive officer, Arthur Mensch.
Modi used the summit to argue for a model of AI development that sits in the middle lane between the corporate-led ecosystem of the US and state-backed China push. At the summit’s busiest day, inclusion and human-centered design took center stage.
“We have talent, energy capacity and policy clarity,” the PM said in Hindi, translated via AI into various languages.
“AI is like GPS. It can show the direction, but where we want to go must be decided by us.”
He positioned India as the tech leader of the Global South — emerging economies, often previously colonized — that are eager to deploy AI but wary of aligning with one tech bloc or another.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres reinforced that message.
“The future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries or left to the whims of a few billionaires,” said Guterres.
The unifying message was that countries beyond the US and China want to be more than potential markets for AI companies.
They want access to the best technologies, influence over regulation and the opportunity to share in the potential profits.
“India is trying to sort of set its terms,” said Bhattacharya. “The risk is India becoming this data colony for big tech where the proprietary, the value-added services are done elsewhere.”
One advantage the country has is the deep expertise of IT service firms like Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Ltd., leaders in helping the world’s corporations adopt new technologies like cloud computing and mobile services. They are now working with partners like Anthrophic and OpenAI to use their armies of consultants to help companies figure out how to use AI.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Group, said on stage he sees the integration of AI and AI agents as a big opportunity for IT providers because of their understanding of the needs and opportunities for large-scale customers.
US companies, for their part, are accelerating expansion in India before local rivals catch up.
Anthropic this week opened an office in the southern tech hub of Bangalore, while OpenAI is expanding operations following last year’s New Delhi launch.
“I was last here a little over a year ago, and it’s striking how much progress has happened since then,” Altman said on Thursday.
India is the fastest-growing market for OpenAI’s Codex coding tool, he added, after Anthropic’s Dario Amodei had earlier said his company’s Claude Code had doubled its local users over the past four months.
“It’s important to move quickly. On our current trajectory, we believe we may be only a couple of years away from early versions of true superintelligence,” Altman, 40, said.
The Tata Group, maker of Jaguar Land Rover SUVs, said this week that it will partner with OpenAI to create as much as 1 gigawatt in data center capacity.
Indian startup called Sarvam used the spotlight of the summit to launch its own AI model, tailored from the ground up for use in the South Asian nation.
The service is voice-based and accessible through nearly two dozen Indian languages, which the company believes will be a competitive advantage in a country of 1.45 billion where the vast majority can’t read, write or type in English.
“Sovereignty matters much more in AI than building the biggest models,” said co-founder Vivek Raghavan at an event in Delhi.
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