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Nvidia aims to build the largest artificial intelligence (AI) workforce in the world and India could be the largest exporter of AI products and talent globally, Nvidia founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Jensen Huang said.
“India will produce and export more AI expertise than any other country. AI could also be its largest exports,” Huang said in a media briefing in Bengaluru.
As part of its vision to be a leader in AI, Nvidia aims to upskill and reskill every engineer in the organisation. “Every single engineer will be an AI engineer. AI will not take your job. The person who uses AI will take your job. So, we need to make sure that our engineers are the most productive, efficient and can build the most important things,” Huang said.
As part of its larger skilling efforts for the entire ecosystem, the California-based company will reskill over 600,000 employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, in AI. Huang also said that it would like to work with other IT services companies as well as Indian universities to train employees and students in AI.
Nvidia has about 2,200 employees in India out of its total workforce of about 27,000 across 50 countries. It aims to more than double its headcount in the country in the next few years.
The company is betting big on the startup ecosystem and is working with 15,000 startups globally, including in India, to partner on AI projects.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Huang to discuss the potential India holds in the field of AI. “Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of @nvidia. We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI. Mr. Jensen Huang was appreciative of the strides India has made in this sector and was equally upbeat about the talented youth of India,” the Prime Minister said in a social media post.
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Nvidia first set up operations in India in 2004 in Bengaluru. Since then, it has grown to four engineering development centres in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune, and Bengaluru, employing about 3,800 professionals in the country. Further, the company works with 320,000 developers in India, participating in Nvidia’s developer programme based in the country.
For the second quarter ended June, Nvidia reported a revenue of $13.5 billion, up 101 per cent from a year ago and 88 per cent from the preceding three months, driven by the AI boom across the world. The company, which follows the calendar year, clocked $27 billion revenue in FY23 and has over 7,500 granted and pending patent applications worldwide.
Nvidia claims to be the “world’s engine for AI.” According to the company, services from tech giants like Alibaba, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, Spotify, Tencent, and 40,000 other companies are built and run on Nvidia AI technologies.
