Underscoring NVIDIA’s rising relationship with the worldwide expertise superpower, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang Monday night.

The assembly at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg — because the Prime Minister’s official residence in New Delhi is thought — comes as Modi prepares to host a gathering of leaders from the G20 group of the world’s largest economies, together with U.S. President Joe Biden, later this week.

“Had a wonderful assembly with Mr. Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA,” Modi mentioned in a social media publish. “We talked at size concerning the wealthy potential India gives on the earth of AI.”

The occasion marks the second assembly between Modi and Huang, highlighting NVIDIA’s function within the nation’s fast-growing expertise trade.

The assembly with Modi comes only a week after India turned the primary nation to efficiently land on the Moon’s south pole, highlighting the increasing technological capabilities of the world’s largest democracy.

Following Huang’s assembly with Modi, Huang met with a number of dozen researchers from world powerhouses of science and expertise, such because the Indian Institute of Science and the assorted campuses of the Indian Institute of Expertise, for a casual dinner.

The attendees represented a stunning assortment of among the prime minds in fields as numerous as massive language fashions, astrophysics, medication, quantum computing, and pure language processing.

The night’s discussions ranged throughout subjects from the usage of expertise to deal with language boundaries, enhance agriculture yields, bridge gaps in well being care companies and rework digital economies — in addition to addressing among the grand scientific challenges of our time.

NVIDIA has deep ties to India.

NVIDIA started operations in India in 2004 in Bangalore, virtually twenty years in the past. India is now residence to 4 engineering growth facilities in India — in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru  — and there are actually greater than 3,800 NVIDIANs in India.

As well as, there are greater than 320,000 India-based builders in NVIDIA’s developer program. NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel programming platform is downloaded roughly 40,000 occasions a month in India, and NVIDIA estimates there are 60,000 skilled CUDA builders in India.

That development comes as India’s authorities continues to increase the nation’s data expertise infrastructure.

For instance, a compute grid is predicted to hyperlink 20 cities throughout the nation quickly, serving to researchers and scientists collaborate and share information and computing assets extra effectively.

That effort, in flip, guarantees to assist help India’s bold growth targets within the years to come back.

Modi has set a goal of 2030 for India to change into the world’s third-largest financial system. It’s at present the fifth largest.

And Modi has set a goal of 2047, the hundredth anniversary of India’s independence, for the South Asian nation to affix the ranks of developed economies.