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Intel is eyeing India in a big way, a move that is both notable and strategic. So much so that last month, it recognised the country as a standalone region, distinct from Asia-Pacific, due to its unique hyper-growth potential and substantial in-country engineering depth—signalling a major expansion into a market poised for global impact. This intent was further crystalised at Intel Vision 2024. Read on for more details.?
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“Boy, was I startled when I learned that India is very convinced they need their own models for their environment. They are excited to train and be able to deliver that using Gaudi clusters,” said Intel’s chief Patrick Gelsinger, at its flagship AI and hardware event, besides introducing Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3, alongside showcasing strategic collaborations to accelerate generative AI adoption.?
India is the sweet spot for Intel.?
Many companies in India are turning to Intel to run their AI workloads, besides NVIDIA and AMD, obviously. For instance, Bharti Airtel aims to harness its extensive telecom data to enhance AI capabilities, enrich customer experiences, and explore new revenue avenues in the digital realm.
Infosys also recently announced a strategic partnership with Intel, integrating Intel technologies such as 4th and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, Intel Gaudi 2 AI accelerators, and Intel Core Ultra into Infosys Topaz. This collaboration aims to offer AI-first services, solutions, and platforms to accelerate business value through generative AI technologies.
Infosys also plans to utilise Intel’s AI training resources to educate its employees about Intel’s product offerings, enabling them to offer generative AI expertise to the company’s extensive international customer base across various industries.
Ola Krutrim is also utilising Intel Gaudi 2 clusters to pre-train and fine-tune its foundational models with generative capabilities in ten languages, achieving industry-leading price/performance ratios compared to existing market solutions. Krutrim is also pre-training a larger foundational model on an Intel Gaudi 2 cluster, further advancing its AI capabilities.
Gelsinger revealed in his keynote that CtrlS, one of the largest and fastest-growing data centres in the world, which hosts most of the providers in India, is also using Gaudi 2 and Xeon processors.?
Just this month, Zoho also collaborated with Intel to optimise AI workloads within the company. Santosh Viswanathan, vice president and managing director at Intel, said that Zoho has witnessed significant performance improvements in AI workloads with 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors.
Last month, L&T also announced its collaboration with Intel to deploy scalable edge-AI solutions across various domains, including Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (CV2X) applications. This collaboration leverages the expertise in connected vehicles and smart transportation systems alongside Intel’s Edge Platform.
The list just goes on and on.?
Not just Intel. UAE’s TII, the creators of Falcon LLMs, is also eyeing India to enhance multilingual support, including Urdu, in their AI models. Check out the exclusive interview with Hakim Hacid, the executive director and acting chief researcher at TII, here.?
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Intel in India
Intel has been in the country for more than 25 years and continues to be a viable option for established customers. The company is leveraging its long-standing presence to make both existing and next-generation processors accessible to everyone, similar to its approach with CPUs.
“AI does not just require big GPUs to solve the problem. There are a lot of different models that can run on Xeon. Innovation at scale can happen with Xeon. We are working with several large customers. Gaudi 2 is available. Gaudi 3 comes in the second half. You will see some of those products coming into India through these customers as well,” said Intel India’s head, Santhosh Viswanathan.?
Though Viswanathan has said that the company currently has no plans to set up its fab within the country, it is still betting big on AI in India in other ways.?
“The world needs a balanced supply chain. You cannot have 80% of servers being made in one place and 90% of all laptops made in one place. I think that’s the key change where India can really step and help build a balanced electronics supply chain for the world,” he said.
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Viswanathan said India has about 20% of the world’s data sets that can be used to train AI models. “We are very frugal. 16 or 20% of the world’s AI talent is in India,” he added, adding that that’s another reason to be bullish about India. “AI is not just artificial intelligence; it is also amazing in India.”??
Internally, most of the new AI models in Indic languages, at least in the open-source ecosystem, are being built by engineers either in universities or just in their 20s. Check out the full story here >>?
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Though it was shortlived. The company has been trying really hard to enhance its presence in the generative AI market like there is no tomorrow, outperforming competitors like OpenAI with its new Command R+ model and the most recent Rerank 3, alongside maintaining cloud-independence, fostering a strong yet flexible partnership with Oracle. Read more here.?
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