India should not export data to import intelligence, PM Modi told me: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Recalling an analogy Prime Minister Narendra Modi came up with during their previous meeting, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that the prime minister told him just like India should not export flour to import bread, similarly the country should not export data to import intelligence.

“During my last meeting with PM Modi, he said something really quite profound. I was explaining to him the concept to AI infrastructure and why it is crucial for every nation to have their own AI infrastructure like their own communication infrastructure, their Internet infrastructure, their roads, energy. Intelligence should be part of your infrastructure and the manufacturing of intelligence should be part of your infrastructure. And he said that India should manufacture its own AI. India should not export data to import intelligence. He said it’s like India should not just export flour to import bread. We should add value to the data ourselves,” CEO Huang said.

The Nvidia CEO is in Mumbai attending the Nvidia AI Summit India at the Jio World Convention Centre.