Though the US-India Transforming the Relationship Utilising Strategic Technology (TRUST) was launched during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Friday, the most important question is: Will Washington support India in developing Artificial Intelligence modules?
The India-US joint statement issued at the end of the summit talks between PM Modi and Donald Trump said that the TRUST is aimed at boosting government-to-government and private-public collaboration to increase cooperation in emerging and cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, semiconductors, quantum, defence, energy in space, and biotechnology.
PM Modi and Donald Trump emphasised to work together and put a roadmap for development of AI infrastructure by the private companies and industries of both the countries.
It has also been said in the joint statement that cooperation on compute and processors for AI, innovations in AI models and building AI application would be the main focus of the TRUST.
What Did Open AI CEO Sam Altman Say?
It is interesting to note that the TRUST has been announced days after Open AI CEO Sam Altman expressed doubte in New Delhi that India will be able to develop Large Language Module of its own in near future.
A large language model (LLM) is an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can process, understand, and generate human language. These are a subset of machine learning called deep learning.
Though Sam Altman said that India is the second biggest market for the AI after the US, it has no tecngical capability to develop the LLM on its own.
DeepSeek Shocks World
Sam Altman’s comment came at a time when China had already launched it Open Source AI DeepSeek.
The Liang Wenfeng-owned Chinese company shocked the world by developing the Ope Source AI module in six montnh and at the cost of $6million. It was peanuts compared to the billions of dollars spent by the Open AI.
Seeking technical know-how in the cutting-edge and emerging technologies related to defence, space, AI, and semiconductor was one of the main objectives of PM Modi’s visit.
US-India Cooperation In Science
The two leaders emphasised cooperation in civil space science and technology, NASA-ISRO effort through AXIOM to take the first Indian astronaut to the International Space Station.
They also agreed to cooperate in long duration human space flight, space exploration and exchange of professtionals in emerging areas.
India To Develop Its Own DeepSeek
However it is not clear if the US will help India in developing AI infrastructure.
Immidiately after DeepSeek hit the headlines, Union Minister for IT and Electronics Ashwini Vaibhav announced that India would soon develop indigenous AI model at an affordable cost.
