Eleven Indians, individuals of Indian origin shine in TIME100 list
Click here! Also Read: Top influential figures in artificial intelligence: From Elon Musk to Sam Altman, check TIME100 list Manu Chopra, CEO, Karya At the age of 27, Chopra established Karya, a nonprofit organization with a unique approach. Karya not only ensures that its employees receive a minimum wage of $5.00 per hour, which is approximately 20 times higher than India's minimum wage, but it also compensates them each time a company licenses Karya to create a new AI product.
Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, Co-founders, Wadhwani AI In 2018, Indian billionaire siblings Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani embarked on a mission to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to address worldwide development issues, particularly in regions where individuals were living on incomes of less than $5 per day. To explore this endeavour, Romesh and Sunil, who serves as the founder and chairman of SAIGroup and the founder of the WISH foundation, respectively, joined forces and allocated $30 million to establish a nonprofit organization known as Wadhwani AI.
To date, a total of $60 million has been committed to this initiative. Apart from these, Pushmeet Kohli, Vice President of Research, Google DeepMind; Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India; Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor Professor and doctoral Candidate, Princeton University are also among the ones on the TIME100 AI List."Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels
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