Underscoring NVIDIA’s rising relationship with the worldwide know-how superpower, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang Monday night.

The assembly at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg — because the Prime Minister’s official residence in New Delhi is thought — comes as Modi prepares to host a gathering of leaders from the G20 group of the world’s largest economies, together with U.S. President Joe Biden, later this week.

“Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA,” Modi stated in a social media post. “We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI.”

The occasion marks the second assembly between Modi and Huang, highlighting NVIDIA’s position within the nation’s fast-growing know-how business.

The assembly with Modi comes only a week after India turned the primary nation to efficiently land on the Moon’s south pole, highlighting the increasing technological capabilities of the world’s largest democracy.

Following Huang’s assembly with Modi, Huang met with a number of dozen researchers from world powerhouses of science and know-how, such because the Indian Institute of Science and the assorted campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology, for an off-the-cuff dinner.

The attendees represented a blinding assortment of a few of the prime minds in fields as numerous as massive language fashions, astrophysics, medication, quantum computing, and pure language processing.

The night’s discussions ranged throughout matters from the usage of know-how to deal with language boundaries, enhance agriculture yields, bridge gaps in well being care companies and rework digital economies — in addition to addressing a few of the grand scientific challenges of our time.

NVIDIA has deep ties to India.

NVIDIA started operations in India in 2004 in Bangalore, virtually 20 years in the past. India is now residence to 4 engineering improvement facilities in India — in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru  — and there are actually greater than 3,800 NVIDIANs in India.

In addition, there are greater than 320,000 India-based builders in NVIDIA’s developer program. NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel programming platform is downloaded roughly 40,000 occasions a month in India, and NVIDIA estimates there are 60,000 skilled CUDA builders in India.

That development comes as India’s authorities continues to develop the nation’s data know-how infrastructure.

For instance, a compute grid is anticipated to hyperlink 20 cities throughout the nation quickly, serving to researchers and scientists collaborate and share knowledge and computing assets extra effectively.

That effort, in flip, guarantees to assist assist India’s bold improvement objectives within the years to return.

Modi has set a goal of 2030 for India to grow to be the world’s third-largest economic system. It’s at the moment the fifth largest.

And Modi has set a goal of 2047, the hundredth anniversary of India’s independence, for the South Asian nation to affix the ranks of developed economies.