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‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.

‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.

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‘People, scale, infectious optimism’: Here’s why India could be the new kid on the AI block.
From cheap GPU access to soil sensors and real-time translation, New Delhi’s AI summit signals a bid to become the Global South’s AI powerhouse.
Thousands of world tech leaders, CEOs, and local founders gathered in India’s capital last week to witness the AI narrative shifting South.
From AI-powered soil sensors for farmers to real-time translation tools that dissolve linguistic barriers for 22 Indian languages, the India AI Impact Summit hosted by New Delhi showcased a live gallery of how a nation can use domestically developed AI solutions to solve everyday problems at a population scale of 1.4 billion people.
The summit converted New Delhi into a massive ‘neural center’ where world leaders and tech giants, including the CEOs of OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google, gathered to fill the gap between innovative technology and human development.
More than just an event, it represents India’s transition from a global back-office to a front-line AI laboratory to develop population-scale solutions for the next billion users.
- By Sumitra Bhatti, a journalist based in India. -


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