From Silicon Valley to Bengaluru: Decentralising Compute Is How We Democratise AI

Artificial intelligence may still be in its early days, but it has already delivered significant scientific and technological breakthroughs across the developed world. Unfortunately, these developments have come at a cost: the dangerous centralisation of AI.

Many reports state that of the top 50 private AI companies, all are based in the developed world, with 80% in the United States.

AI remains skewed toward well-capitalised tech giants in the developed world.

For many Indian companies, the price of entry to the AI revolution is unreachable. The need of the hour is to ensure that innovation and AI development are accessible to the broadest range of projects.

Compute for the few

At the heart of the problem lies compute, or more accurately, access to compute. Training and deploying large AI models requires vast GPU power. But supply has not kept pace, which is driving the price for NVIDIA ...