India relies on data centres and billion-dollar investments to dominate artificial intelligence
With over USD 300 billion in public and private investment, India is poised to become a global hub for AI, attracting giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon
from our correspondent Marco Masciaga
NEW DELHI - The aim of the summit on the present and future of artificial intelligence being held in New Delhi is to create the conditions so that the forthcoming developments in the field do not only serve to maximise the financial and strategic dividends of the countries that are leading this technological revolution, but put humans, including the billions living in the Global South, at the centre.
But this will be taken care of by political leaders such as the presidents of France and Brazil, Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will be visiting the Indian capital in the coming days.
For the time being, it is the companies that dominate the scene at the summit, engaged in a contest of announcements from which not even the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shirked. As usual, he has turned an international event into a stage to project the image of an India marching towards a future of growth and prosperity.
Among the announcements that have had the greatest impact on share prices is that of Infosys, India's number two in It, and Anthropic, which among the big players in Ai is perhaps the one that is looking with most interest at the corporate world. The two companies have announced a collaboration to create advanced artificial intelligence solutions for the corporate world.
Anthropic will interact its Claude models with Infosys' Topaz AI family of products to help companies automate processes and software production. After the announcement, Infosys' stock gained 4.8 per cent, recovering at least part of the 16 per cent capitalisation burned since 1 January in large part due to the advances made by Anthropic.
