Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang to discuss NVIDIA's role in India's rapidly growing technology industry, ahead of hosting leaders from the G20 group. This meeting, the second between Modi and Huang, highlighted the strengthening relationship between NVIDIA and India, a nation actively expanding its technological capabilities, according to a Sept. 4 news release.
"Had an excellent meeting with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA," Modi said in the release. "We talked at length about the rich potential India offers in the world of AI."
The meeting took place at Modi's official residence in New Delhi, known as 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. This gathering followed India's recent historic achievement of successfully landing on the Moon's southern pole, showcasing the expanding technological prowess of the world's largest democracy, the release reported.
After the meeting with Modi, Huang engaged in discussions with numerous researchers from renowned global institutions in science and technology, such as the Indian Institute of Science and various campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology, during an informal dinner. These researchers encompassed a diverse spectrum of expertise, including large language models, astrophysics, medicine, quantum computing and natural language processing, the release said.
NVIDIA's ties to India run deep, with the company establishing operations in Bangalore in 2004. Presently, India hosts four engineering development centers in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru, employing more than 3,800 individuals, according to the release.
Additionally, there are more than 320,000 developers participating in NVIDIA's developer program in India. The company's CUDA parallel programming platform garners approximately 40,000 monthly downloads in India, with an estimated 60,000 experienced CUDA developers in the country, the release reported.
India's government continues to expand its information technology infrastructure, exemplified by the forthcoming compute grid connecting 20 cities nationwide. This initiative aims to facilitate collaboration and efficient data sharing among researchers and scientists, offering support for India's ambitious development objectives in the years ahead, the release said.
Modi reportedly set ambitious targets for India, aiming to become the world's third-largest economy by 2030, a significant leap from its current status as the fifth largest. Furthermore, he envisions India joining the league of developed economies by 2047, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of India's independence, according to the release.
