New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- The United States regards India as a crucial potential partner in efforts to secure global supply chains for artificial intelligence and semiconductors. Underlining this facet, Sriram Krishnan, Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, stressed on partnerships with India to leverage US innovation to build tools for Indian citizens.

Speaking at a special session on the sidelines of the AI-India Impact Summit in the capital, Krishnan said, "All the leading model companies are based in the US. The US is by far putting in the most investment in dollars, right? Like it's easily over a billion dollars between this year and next year, that to just going vertical on the GPUs, on advanced AI chips, Nvidia...