Monday, September 4th 2023
NVIDIA CEO Meets with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Underscoring NVIDIA's growing relationship with the global technology superpower, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang Monday evening. The meeting at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg—as the Prime Minister's official residence in New Delhi is known—comes as Modi prepares to host a gathering of leaders from the G20 group of the world's largest economies, including U.S. President Joe Biden, later this week.
"Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA," Modi said in a social media post. "We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI." The event marks the second meeting between Modi and Huang, highlighting NVIDIA's role in the country's fast-growing technology industry.
The meeting with Modi comes just a week after India became the first nation to successfully land on the Moon's south pole, highlighting the expanding technological capabilities of the world's largest democracy.
Following Huang's meeting with Modi, Huang met with several dozen researchers from global powerhouses of science and technology, such as the Indian Institute of Science and the various campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology, for an informal dinner.
The attendees represented a dazzling collection of some of the top minds in fields as diverse as large language models, astrophysics, medicine, quantum computing, and natural language processing.
The evening's discussions ranged across topics from the use of technology to address language barriers, improve agriculture yields, bridge gaps in health care services and transform digital economies—as well as addressing some of the grand scientific challenges of our time.
NVIDIA has deep ties to India.
NVIDIA began operations in India in 2004 in Bangalore, almost two decades ago. India is now home to four engineering development centers in India—in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru—and there are now more than 3,800 NVIDIANs in India.
In addition, there are more than 320,000 India-based developers in NVIDIA's developer program. NVIDIA's CUDA parallel programming platform is downloaded roughly 40,000 times a month in India, and NVIDIA estimates there are 60,000 experienced CUDA developers in India.
That growth comes as India's government continues to expand the nation's information technology infrastructure.
For example, a compute grid is expected to link 20 cities across the country soon, helping researchers and scientists collaborate and share data and computing resources more efficiently.
That effort, in turn, promises to help support India's ambitious development goals in the years to come.
Modi has set a target of 2030 for India to become the world's third-largest economy. It's currently the fifth largest.
And Modi has set a target of 2047, the hundredth anniversary of India's independence, for the South Asian nation to join the ranks of developed economies.
Sources:
NVIDIA, @narendramodi on X (Twitter)
"Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA," Modi said in a social media post. "We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI." The event marks the second meeting between Modi and Huang, highlighting NVIDIA's role in the country's fast-growing technology industry.
Following Huang's meeting with Modi, Huang met with several dozen researchers from global powerhouses of science and technology, such as the Indian Institute of Science and the various campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology, for an informal dinner.
The attendees represented a dazzling collection of some of the top minds in fields as diverse as large language models, astrophysics, medicine, quantum computing, and natural language processing.
The evening's discussions ranged across topics from the use of technology to address language barriers, improve agriculture yields, bridge gaps in health care services and transform digital economies—as well as addressing some of the grand scientific challenges of our time.
NVIDIA has deep ties to India.
NVIDIA began operations in India in 2004 in Bangalore, almost two decades ago. India is now home to four engineering development centers in India—in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru—and there are now more than 3,800 NVIDIANs in India.
In addition, there are more than 320,000 India-based developers in NVIDIA's developer program. NVIDIA's CUDA parallel programming platform is downloaded roughly 40,000 times a month in India, and NVIDIA estimates there are 60,000 experienced CUDA developers in India.
That growth comes as India's government continues to expand the nation's information technology infrastructure.
For example, a compute grid is expected to link 20 cities across the country soon, helping researchers and scientists collaborate and share data and computing resources more efficiently.
That effort, in turn, promises to help support India's ambitious development goals in the years to come.
Modi has set a target of 2030 for India to become the world's third-largest economy. It's currently the fifth largest.
And Modi has set a target of 2047, the hundredth anniversary of India's independence, for the South Asian nation to join the ranks of developed economies.
33 Comments on NVIDIA CEO Meets with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Hows AMD is going to compete with Intel and NVIDIA at the same time?
Ok they fought Intel which was chilling but what about nvidia?
Jensen: "Nawww the jacket's totally water buffalo just like your shoes, right mate?"
So depending on where you are it's currently mildly hot, slightly chilly, or stupidly humid. The south is almost always hot because of the proximity to the equator.
these are not 3DCG renders right
indians like their own brands and companies you can forget about doing well in business if you aren’t the only one on the market
Looking at GDP in PPP (purchasing power parity) terms removes price level differences and allows a better comparison, especially of living standards, between countries.
In these terms Russia has just overtaken Germany to become the fifth wealthiest economy in the world and the largest in Europe, worth $5.3 trillion.
intellinews.com/russia-overtakes-germany-to-become-fifth-biggest-economy-in-the-world-in-gdp-on-a-ppp-basis-286944/
Modi met with the wrong person. He needs to meet Taiwanese TSMC's representatives in order to build semiconductors fabs in India.
I see that there are too many software developers in India but that's not where the real money is.
Just watch out, if the king of Indiana, Shah Rukh Khan, appears on the guest list for the next talks, things getting serious. :laugh:
Ford was not doing well because of the cars they sell, nothing to do with business environment in India! Suzuki & Hyundai are India's two biggest carmakers & they're operating for 40+ & nearly 30 years respectively. You really should do more research than just serving up this.
Now if you say there's corruption everywhere that I can agree with, but corruption is a bigger entry barrier for small/mid sized firms. Big businesses have deep pockets & can mostly overcome this rather easily!