Google Research India head Manish Gupta on Tuesday disagreed with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s observation that instead of building large language models, India should focus on use cases. “There’s a technologist that I deeply respect, Nandan Nilekani, who made this statement: India should forget about foundation model building, just focus on the use cases. And I would say, with the person I respect, I respectfully disagree,” Gupta said.
According to him, building foundations are required to build use cases. Gupta cited the case of Aadhaar, which Nilekani built, where first, the foundation was built and later the use cases.
Last month, Nilekani had said that India’s goal should not be to build one more LLM. “Let the big boys in the (Silicon) Valley do it, spending billions of dollars. We will use it to create synthetic data, build small language models quickly, and train them using appropriate data,” he had said, adding that creating infrastructure for collecting the right data and making India the “use case capital of AI globally”.
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