Are they Building AGI? | Young Indic AI Developers | Tech Talks | AIM

In conversation with Technology Journalist, Mohit Pandey, Mufeed VH, the founder of Stition.ai & creator of Devika, India's AI Software Engineer | Adarsh Shirawalmath, founder of Tensoic and creator of Kannada Llama | Adithya S Kolavi, founder of CognitiveLab and creator of the Indic LLM Leaderboard. The three Indic AI developers who are moving fast and breaking things.

The conversation touched upon AI, will AGI be built in India, the Indian AI open-source ecosystem, academia, the funding drama in India, the need for open source in India, what are the problems of AI funding in India, and what are the universities doing to drive India's AI ecosystem forward.

0:00 - 1:18 - Intro
1:18 - 9:30 - Guests intro

9:30 - 20:30 - Llama 3, Indic Dataset, AI4Bharat, Tokenizer
20:30 - 23:22 - Foundational Models in India
23:23 - 28:04 - Indian Academia, BharatGPT, Government
28:05 - 34:14 - Young Indian AI Researchers, Interest in AI
34:15 - 39:49 - Ola Krutrim, Need for Indic Foundational Model
39:50 - 46:24 - OpenAI & AGI
46:25 - 49:25 - Future Outlook, AI in India
49:26 - 51:13 - Learning Coding in the era of AI
51:14 - 53:23 - Devika replacing software engineers, OpenAI killing startups
53:24 - 57:13 - Awareness of AI in India, Explaining AI to Indians
57:14 - 1:04:20 - AI Funding, VCs, Money needed for AI
1:04:21 - 1:09:01 - Building AGI in India
1:09:02 - End - Closing remarks