Google DeepMind's Manish Gupta on why India is AI's hardest testbed
ManishGuptaMG1 · x · 2026-09-04
Google DeepMind Senior Director Manish Gupta joined a NASSCOM conversation on AI's toughest challenges in India and globally.
- India stress-tests AI like nowhere else: hundreds of languages, millions of farms, rising energy demand, and problems that must scale.
- AI built for India must understand local languages and contexts rather than merely adapting models developed elsewhere.
- Potential breakthrough areas include energy, materials science, agriculture, and scientific discovery.
Gupta also noted that one of his examples, @PranosFusion, happens to have an India dimension.
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