In India, Nvidia eyes a different approach to sovereign AI
Nvidia has been talking about sovereign AI for years, but is finding that India’s cultural and economic diversity calls for a different approach. Unlike in the US, truckloads of GPUs won’t drive the chipmaker’s expansion in India. Instead, the company plans to focus on software first, and deal with computing power later. It’s betting on a data-first approach, with a localized AI plan customized for the diversity of demographics, cultures, and languages. Nvidia is also wooing India’s huge developer base by touting its open-source credentials and devising a localized AI plan that includes smaller language models adapted for the local energy and data center infrastructure. “The data that gets created here, when assembled together in an Indian stack, creates population scale stacks that citizens can enjoy and solve many of the mega challenges India faces, be it in education, healthcare, mobility,” said Vishal Dhupar, Nvidia’s managing director in South Asia. The Indian government has specifically pointed out how it consumes AI differently than countries like the US.