And he promised to help India create its own infrastructure.
According to the Nikkei Asian Review, at the GTC 2024 conference in California, the founder and permanent head of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, quite unexpectedly called on the Japanese authorities and companies to independently develop artificial intelligence systems, without involving foreign performers. According to him, Japanese developers will cope better with this task, since they will take into account the cultural, economic and linguistic characteristics of the country.
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Japan's aging population poses challenges to the national economy in terms of increasing labor productivity, and artificial intelligence could well cope with them, according to the founder of NVIDIA. He also noted that the Indian authorities intend to invest $1.25 billion in the development of national computing infrastructure and large language models. Over the next one and a half to two years, part of these funds will be spent on purchasing 10,000 NVIDIA computing accelerators. According to the head of the company, she is open to participation in this initiative of the Indian authorities and is very interested in cooperation.