{"id":4289,"date":"2024-03-19T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/startup-mahakumbh-deeptech-data-ai-take-centrestage-on-day-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:40:09","slug":"startup-mahakumbh-deeptech-data-ai-take-centrestage-on-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/startup-mahakumbh-deeptech-data-ai-take-centrestage-on-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Mahakumbh: deeptech, data, AI take centrestage on day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From deeptech to digital public infrastructure, from data to artificial intelligence, and the \u2018India way\u2019 \u2013 the second day of the three-day Startup Mahakumbh<\/a> in the national capital discussed it all.<\/p>\n

India is possibly the world leader in AI-first startups today, Amit Kumar, director and head of digital natives business at Google Cloud India, said at the event.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIndia is leading the world in adoption of generative AI, which is also helping to solve real world problems in areas like financial inclusion, health-related problems and agriculture,\u201d Kumar said, adding that Indian companies have bold ambition.<\/p>\n

For instance, Indian deeptech companies are working on large language models<\/a> (LLM) for India, building at a population scale, and these can be exported globally, he added.<\/p>\n

India is maturing into a large economy at a time when we are becoming data rich, noted Umakanth Soni, chairman of AI Foundry, a venture studio for AI startups. As the foundational technology of AI depends on data, India can develop the \u2018India way\u2019 rather than the US or China way, by looking at data as an asset, he added.<\/p>\n

Infosys<\/a> co-founder and president, Infosys Science Foundation, Kris Gopalakrishnan highlighted that India\u2019s unique digital public infrastructure will transform digitisation in the country and presents an opportunity for startups to leverage for business.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis will completely transform the way digitisation happens in the country, which I believe is a better way than the way it has developed in the west, where you have a few players owning the whole thing \u2013 owning the application, owning the data, owning the services,\u201d he said.Gopalakrishnan said that India\u2019s new way of doing things is enabled by the government, by philanthropic and non-government organisations creating open-source protocols and code, and entrepreneurs who develop applications on top of that.<\/p>\n

After the success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), India will see DPI like the health stack bringing hospitals and insurers together, and the digital lending platform empowering farmers and eventually MSMEs for near-instantaneous credit access, Gopalakrishnan pointed out.<\/p>\n

The Government eMarketplace (GeM) will by next month enable easy loan access on the GeM Sahay app, which is built on another DPI, the Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN), GeM officials said at the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe single biggest thing we have on our side is the timing,\u201d said Zetwerks CEO Amrit Acharya, adding that in a China+1 geopolitical scenario along with the government\u2019s \u2018make in India\u2019 policy, the world, especially markets like the US, are increasingly looking at India.<\/p>\n

The emotional argument is in India\u2019s favour at the moment, and if companies get the economics right, the demand can be infinite, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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