India’s IT will be the ‘front-office’ of world’s AI revolution: Nvidia's Jensen Huang
India’s technology professionals are emerging to be the ‘front-office’ of the world's artificial intelligence (AI) revolution by reskilling themselves with AI-native skills, Jensen Huang, chief executive, Nvidia said.
“India has the largest population of IT professionals, there is no question they will be reskilled for AI,” Huang said.
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He said that his conversations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlight India’s need to become a part of AI value addition rather than just exporting India’s data to train super-sized large language models.
“He (PM Modi) said to me, Jensen, India should not export flowers to import bread, this makes perfect sense. Why export the raw material to import the value add. Why export the data of India, so that you can import AI,” Huang said.
“AI is used for engineering, marketing, sales, finance, business operations, all of that in front
