Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges India to Move Faster on AI

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said India should move quickly to capitalize on artificial intelligence, pointing to the country’s strength in information technology and urging Indian companies and startups to build a domestic AI economy.

“AI is moving fast, so every country has to move faster,” Huang told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 Innovation Ministerial.

Huang said the emergence of AI represents the start of a new technology platform and creates an opportunity for India to build on its established IT industry.

“India is one of the world’s leading IT industries, and this is the beginning of a new IT platform,” he said.

Huang also recalled discussing AI with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about a decade ago.

“And I had the benefit of seeing Modi Ji a decade ago, talking about AI,” Huang said.

He said he was eager to see Indian companies and startups adopt the technology, contribute to its development and use it to create a stronger domestic AI ecosystem.

“I’m really anxious to see and very excited to see the local companies and the local startups starting in India, starting to take advantage of the technology, contributing to the technology, and then building the local AI economy with it,” Huang said.

The Nvidia chief described AI as increasingly important economic infrastructure. While the United States is seeking to lead across the full technology stack, Huang said other countries should be able to choose the components they need to build their own AI capabilities.

He said the U.S. government supports technology development and wants other G20 countries to adopt AI and use it to strengthen their economies.

Huang also urged policymakers to avoid imposing regulations based primarily on hypothetical risks while the technology remains in its early stages.

“The rules of the road, right now the technology is in its formative stages,” he said. “The advice that I would have is to regulate practical and actual harm and not regulate theoretical and hypothetical harm.”

Huang said AI systems should continue to improve in both capability and safety, comparing their development with advances in automobile safety over the past century.

“Just as cars today are much safer because the technology is better than the cars were 100 years ago, we need to make the technology as advanced as possible,” he said.

Huang said AI systems have become more reliable over the past two years, with fewer hallucinations, stronger grounding in factual information and a greater ability to solve practical problems.

He added that technology companies have a responsibility to ensure AI is developed safely even as competition accelerates.

“Every single company has to take it upon themselves to develop the technology safely,” Huang said.

Asked whether he had discussed additional U.S. semiconductor tariffs with officials at the meeting, Huang said he had not.

“I had no conversation related to that,” he said.

Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and has served as its CEO since its founding. The company, initially known for graphics processors used in gaming and computers, has become a major supplier of chips used to train and run artificial intelligence systems. (Source: IANS)