Artificial intelligence will assist India transition from being the IT again workplace of world firms to the entrance workplace for engineering, finance, advertising and marketing and gross sales, NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang mentioned on March 19.

“When I meet with the leaders in India, it is very clear to them that this is one of the greatest opportunities for them to reskill themselves. Instead of the back room of companies, they will now become the front room of the companies where value is created,” he mentioned.

“AI is used for engineering, marketing, sales, finance, business operations, marketing strategies, all of that is front office. India is looking to come into the front office,” he added.

A day after announcing a new generation of AI chips that are 30 times more powerful than the preceding version, Huang additionally mentioned that NVIDIA is eager to take part within the Indian authorities’s plan to obtain 10,000 graphics processing models for home startups and researchers.

“If India is buying GPUs for AI, if I can throw my thoughts… Nvidia builds really good AI GPUs. When you go back, please spread the word. If somebody wants to buy GPUs, I am open for business. And we’re quite interested in it,” Huang mentioned.

“India shouldn’t export flour to import bread. Why export data to import AI? Refine it, add value in India,” he added.

The Union Cabinet lately authorised the India AI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for 5 years to encourage AI growth within the nation. Under the mission, supercomputing capability, comprising over 10,000 GPUs (graphics processing models), will probably be made accessible to numerous stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem.

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A brand new industrial revolution

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of NVIDIA’s annual know-how convention in San Jose, California, Huang mentioned that generative AI is creating a brand new industrial revolution.

“In the last industrial revolution, raw material was water and electricity. This time it is data… Generative AI is a new type of factory, a new industrial revolution,” he mentioned.

“I think AI has already made the greatest contribution to the world as you don’t need to learn C++ anymore to be successful. You can be a prompt engineer. When my wife is talking to me, she is prompting,” he added in jest.

(This correspondent was in San Jose at NVIDIA’s invitation)