Nvidia senior vice president Shanker Trivedi on Monday said that India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) can be used as a basis to build sovereign AI and the company is open to collaborate with the government and startups in that direction. Trivedi, who met the minister of state for electronics and IT on Monday, said, “The digital public infrastructure has reached digital mass and many new apps can be built on it.”
Comments from Trivedi assume significance in the sense that the government is looking to shape global trends and conversations in artificial intelligence by developing the country’s own sovereign AI infrastructure. Similar to DPI, Sovereign AI can help the government focus on real-life use cases in healthcare, agriculture, governance, language translation, etc. to maximise economic development. “From Nvidia’s perspective, what is important is the growth and pervasiveness of sovereign AI,” Trivedi said.
AI sovereignty means that the government is building its AI foundation models like large language models for national security, which can then be leveraged by other companies and be used as a digital good. Nvidia had also entered into separate pacts with Reliance Industries and Tata group to develop advanced artificial intelligence applications in the country.
