India should target chips, visual AI, not classic LLMs: Soumitra Dutta

Portulans Institute founder Soumitra Dutta says Big Tech data centres can help, but India's AI push needs chips, data, energy, and higher R&D spend

Soumitra Dutta, the founder of Washington-based Portulans Institute which is focussed on research and outreach on technology, is considered a leading global voice on artificial intelligence (AI). The former dean of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford talks to Shine Jacob about the future of AI in India, large language models (LLM), the data centre revolution, and the changes that public and private sectors need to take to boost the AI ecosystem.

 

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Google is investing $15 billion for its largest AI data centre outside the US in Visakhapatnam. Will such investments help in boosting India's