'Infrastructure is crucial for innovation, research'

ChatGPT has put generative AI on every company’s roadmap. Training such large language models also requires large amount of computing power and companies like Nvidia, which drive some of the most powerful supercomputers, are set to play a key role. In an interview, Vishal Dhupar, managing director, Asia-South for Nvidia, delves into the role of generative AI, the value of computing infrastructure, and how well-placed India is to exploit these disruptive AI technologies. Edited excerpts:

- Abhijit Ahaskar

What role is Nvidia playing in the adoption of generative AI?

A lot of people think about Nvidia as a chip company, and it’s true that we make chips . But we are the only semiconductor company that builds platforms. We build platforms by understanding a domain, creating the tools, libraries, algorithms, which are specifically designed to solve that problem, and translating all that into a framework, so that the community can then apply it in a quicker and more efficient, and effective way. They can use portions of the Nvidia stack depending on competency or they can use the full stack.