AI, especially generative AI, can catalyze nation’s growth, and is acknowledged as vital not only for the companies but also for the government. Nasscom report has recommended that India needs sovereign GPU Cloud. As we know, generative AI models are neural networks with parallel processing capabilities. The traditional CPUs have been used by the data centres and not the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). As GPUs are expensive, the shift from CPUs to GPUs is going to be expensive. The GPU making Nvidia produces A100 and H100 chips which are most sought after all over the world. India can be a world leader if it makes plans to procure these chips in sufficient quantities.

SoftBank together with Japanese government, Israel with government backup, UAE with government backup drive the generative AI projects.

India needs LLMs trained in Indian languages. That will bring the benefits of generative AI to the common citizens. The government has to unlock local data to train AI systems. Generative AI can be used to map the rural terrain for irrigation purposes. LLMs can be trained on satellite images.

Generative AI can be used to develop drugs for needs of Indian population. Indian pharma can develop original therapies.