“You guys are building the future here,” Yann LeCun, the chief scientist of Meta AI, remarked as he photographed the crowd with his Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses at the Meta Build with AI Summit held in Bangalore on Wednesday. He was referring to India’s talent pool working on open-source initiatives in India.
LeCun highlighted how diverse contributions enhance the development of AI, noting that it has significantly impacted open-source initiatives in India driven by companies like Sarvam AI, AI4Bharat, and others.
He said that while promoting open source serves Meta’s interest, he was fascinated by how people were developing products that even Meta hadn’t envisioned. “I see how people try to use the technology with good open-source data.” He acknowledged the work of AI4Bharat, a research lab at IIT Madras which works on developing open-source datasets to use AI for Indic languages.
“Going forward, India has an important role to play, not just in technology and product development, not …