New Delhi, NFAPost: India G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant exhorted startups to help maintain the country’s sovereignty in technology and build its own “end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem”.
“It is very important that for India to maintain its sovereignty in technological advancement and leading from the far front, we must not become a technological colony of either the West or any other country in the world,” he said in a keynote address at the second edition of Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi on Friday.
India G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant also said India should continue to innovate in a very nimble, less energy-consuming, and cost-effective manner while speaking on the theme ‘From Catch-up to Take Off: India’s Startup Ecosystem Poised to Lead’.
The country has vast datasets that it should use to innovate in AI. “We must build sovereign frontier models which are based on our own datasets and do not have inherent biases with the West. We must build an end-to-end AI ecosystem and not just the application layer,” said India G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant.
India G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant also said startups must get into areas of AI, machine learning, blockchain, big data as disruption in these areas will be very critical. “The future lies in India becoming a champion of deep technology,” said India G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant.
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