- Published on July 14, 2024
- In IT Services
‘India’s UPI Moment in AI Will Be Driven by Usage, Not Production,’ Says Aadhaar Architect Pramod Varma
Former chief architect of Aadhaar Pramod Varma believes that India’s future is voice-based AI.
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- By Siddharth Jindal
Last year, AIM probed when India's ‘UPI Moment’ in AI would arrive, pointing towards the potential for a locally contextualised AI model as a digital public good. Little did the world know that the work had already started and that it was arriving sooner than expected.
"We will see a UPI moment in India for generative AI through the usage of AI, more than the production of AI,” said Pramod Varma, expressing uncertainty over whether another OpenAI will emerge from India but but wished AI companies in India (the likes of Krutrim AI, Sarvam AI, and SML) well on their effort in building advanced foundational models.
Varma is the former chief architect of Aadhaar & India Stack and the founding architect of the Beckn Protocol. He is currently serving as the chief te
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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