Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked founders of Indian startups currently engaged in building large language models (LLMs) to create made-in-India artificial intelligence solutions for the world.
At a closed-door meeting with the top leadership of 12 AI startups, Modi also called for harnessing the transformative technology for public good, with a focus on solving both Indian and global challenges, multiple founders told ET.
"The formal strategy discussion followed by an informal conversation was a deep dive into how India doesn't just participate in the AI revolution but leads it," said Ayush Gupta, chief executive of Genloop, which is developing a trio of small language models.
During the meet, the PM also reminded the startup founders to adapt Indian knowledge into AI research, instead of simply copying the path taken by developed economies.
He encouraged founders to work on indigenous data and mine insights from Indian heritage texts to postulate new hypotheses, and urged them to tap Gyan Bharatam, the culture ministry's initiative to digitise and preserve the country's vast manuscript heritage, said Ganesh Ramakrishnan, principal investigator at BharatGen, an academic consortium based out of IIT Bombay.
At a closed-door meeting with the top leadership of 12 AI startups, Modi also called for harnessing the transformative technology for public good, with a focus on solving both Indian and global challenges, multiple founders told ET.
"The formal strategy discussion followed by an informal conversation was a deep dive into how India doesn't just participate in the AI revolution but leads it," said Ayush Gupta, chief executive of Genloop, which is developing a trio of small language models.
During the meet, the PM also reminded the startup founders to adapt Indian knowledge into AI research, instead of simply copying the path taken by developed economies.
He encouraged founders to work on indigenous data and mine insights from Indian heritage texts to postulate new hypotheses, and urged them to tap Gyan Bharatam, the culture ministry's initiative to digitise and preserve the country's vast manuscript heritage, said Ganesh Ramakrishnan, principal investigator at BharatGen, an academic consortium based out of IIT Bombay.