The India Opportunity in AI: An Investor Perspective.
Panelists
Matt Clifford - Founder, EF. Chairman, ARIA
Matt founded EF to catalyze the world's outlier talent to build generational tech companies. Along with EF, Matt has been an active part of the AI safety and alignment ecosystem including serving as the UK PM's AI representative and organised the AI Safety Summit last year.
Pratik Poddar - Partner, Nexus Venture Partners
Pratik's a partner at Nexus Venture Partners where he's invested and worked closely with companies like Turtlemint, Rapido, Whitehat, Quizizz, Pratilipi, and Allo Health. He started his journey as an Entrepreneur, building a Context-Aware Information Discovery Platform before taking the plunge into investing.
Schedule:
6:00 - 7:30 - Fireside Chat
7:30 - 8:00 - Q/A
About
Entrepreneur First is hosting a fireside chat discussing the India Opportunity in AI. With the advent of Large Language Models and increasing AI capabilities, India is at an inflection point of claiming its position in the AI race. To claim this space, we need a vibrant startup ecosystem. To enable it we have capital and investor perspectives on:
Talent
Who will be the winners in an AI world? Are there founders of a certain mould? Researchers? Folks with Industry Domain expertise but technical agility?
These questions will be essential for our ecosystem to thrive in the next decade.
Compute
How can India and the East win in a race that can't be won without compute? or can it be? Should states subsidize compute as they did electricity? Will compute become a utility?
If data is the new oil then compute is the rig itself. How can ecosystems protect themselves from resource risk?
Alignment and Safety
As benchmarks get beaten with every launch, the conversation around enforcing AI to be a good actor is center stage today. From Yan Le Cunn to Mustafa Suleyman to an e/acc Twitter account, everyone has strong beliefs about AI's potential to be a bad actor. How can India play a part?
Opportunities and Challenges
Where is the alpha that founders today are missing? Opportunities in AI for the next decade hidden in plain sight?
With the AI hype and multiple new models dropping every quarter, how are VCs evaluating AI opportunities today?
Open Source vs Closed Source
Where do you see the world heading today? Will there be Operating Systems like distribution or closed source models will lead the way to the future?
AGI
The elephant in the room - How far is AGI? What is AGI?