IISF 2025, which began on December 6, has emerged as one of the most influential scientific events of the year, inspiring young minds and strengthening India's pursuit of Vikshit Bharat@2047, an official statement said.New Delhi's strength in human capital, data and scientific curiosity positions the country to become a global hub for semiconductor manufacturing, officials said on Monday at the 2025 India International Science Festival (IISF).
IISF 2025, which began on December 6, has emerged as one of the most influential scientific events of the year, inspiring young minds and strengthening India's pursuit of Vikshit Bharat@2047, an official statement said.
“India is poised to become a global AI leader by 2035 by leveraging young talent and the country's data-rich ecosystem,” said Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Director, IIT Ropar.
Ahuja stressed that the India AI Mission aims to train one billion youth in AI, build national computing infrastructure, develop indigenous AI models, and promote responsible and ethical AI.
The event brought together leading voices from academia, industry and researchers to explore how the evolution from artificial intelligence to artificial general intelligence will shape the future of science, innovation and humanity, the statement said.
Speakers emphasized that AI will become integral to every profession and emphasized the need for India-centric data, models and language technologies to ensure equitable prosperity and digital inclusion.
Pratyush Kumar, co-founder of Sarvam AI, introduced a multilingual AI system, including India's first sovereign-based large-scale language model (LLM) for Indian languages, under the IndiaAI mission.
Gopal Krishna Bhatt, director of data center customer engineering at Intel, explained how India is rapidly advancing in server design, chip development, and high-performance computing hardware.
He said hardware designs for dozens of India-based servers and data centers are currently underway, reflecting the momentum generated by the government's semiconductor and digital infrastructure push.
NVIDIA's Manish Modani highlighted that India's rapidly expanding high-performance computing (HPC) and graphics processing unit (GPU)-powered infrastructure is driving increased research output in areas ranging from climate modeling to language technology.
India's data scale, language diversity and scientific talent make the country uniquely positioned to lead the global transformation from AI to AGI, he added.
