Wadhwani AI, an independent, non-profit institute, is leveraging the capabilities of AI and ML to address real-world challenges. By predicting tuberculosis risk, using LLMs to aid farmers and pioneering infant anthropometry, it is transforming public services with emerging technologies.
Srinivas Narayanan, vice president of OpenAI, discusses how the company is democratizing AI access for deep tech startups with GPT-4 that prioritizes cost, speed and inclusivity. "AI is the pivotal technological advancement of our era, and the creativity witnessed in India is inspiring," he said.
Anil Kumar Gupta, director (IT services), IFFCO, talks about innovations such as low-cost fertilizers, drones, EVs, high-resolution imaging, digital tools for farmers, and the cloud. By promoting entrepreneurship among young farmers, IFFCO aims to increase yields and profitability.
Cropin, a SaaS-based agritech company, digitized 30 million acres of farmland across 103 countries to help 7 million farmers. CEO Krishna Kumar discusses their new Mistral AI-based micro language model - aksara - trained on agriculture datasets, outperforming GPT-4 by 40% on farming queries.
Cropin, a SaaS-based agritech company, is harnessing satellite imagery and power of AI to provide early crop alerts and enhance crop yields. Praveen Pankajakshan, Cropin's vice president of data science and AI, discusses how the company is digitizing farm boundaries at a global scale.
Generative AI's potential is far beyond the conventional AI. Amol Deshpande, chief digital officer at RPG Group, highlights the company's initial experiments with generative AI and how it is harnessing its power to tackle the challenges of Industry 4.0.
Most generative AI use cases focus on workforce productivity - such as summarizing a 50-page report in minutes. But that's changing, said Gartner's Arun Chandrasekaran, as companies begin to apply AI tools in new areas such as research and development, prototyping and code writing.
In the agriculture sector, challenges like scaling, seasonal demand fluctuations, crop issues and yield optimization are paramount. Madhulika Shukla, CEO of IFFCO eBazar, explains how the company strategically employs cloud and AI/ML solutions to effectively tackle these challenges.
DeHaat, a budding startup in the $360 billion-strong Indian agriculture sector, ensures that technology-enabled farming is used for intelligent input, healthy output and the right markets for selling the crops. Shyam Sunder Singh, co-founder of DeHaat, says the journey has just begun.
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