NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called for India to develop its own artificial intelligence capabilities during the NVIDIA AI Summit, emphasising that the nation "should not export data to import intelligence."
Speaking to a gathering of entrepreneurs, developers, and business leaders, Huang highlighted India's "amazing natural resource" in its IT and computer science expertise. He announced that NVIDIA GPU deployments in India are set to increase nearly tenfold by the end of the year, laying the foundation for what he termed an "AI-driven economy." The expansion marks a significant step in India's technological advancement, which Huang compared to the revolutionary impact of IBM's System 360 in 1964.
"This industry, the computing industry, is going to become the intelligence industry," Huang declared, noting India's unique advantages in leading this transformation, including its vast data resources and large population.
During a fireside chat, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani joined Huang to discuss their companies' collaborative efforts in building AI infrastructure. The partnership focuses on developing AI factories to automate industrial processes, particularly in energy and manufacturing sectors.
NVIDIA is also taking steps to develop India's AI workforce through partnerships with major IT companies. Collaborations with industry giants including Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, and Wipro aim to upskill approximately 500,000 developers.
Huang outlined three key areas where AI will transform industries: sovereign AI for nation-specific innovation, agentic AI for knowledge-based work automation, and physical AI for industrial applications through robotics and autonomous systems.
The NVIDIA chief's vision aligns with India's broader technological ambitions, as the country's cloud infrastructure providers rapidly expand their data centre capacity to support AI development.