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Why India Must Lead in Deep AI Research | Insights from Google DeepMind Director

Why India Must Lead in Deep AI Research | Insights from Google DeepMind Director

Update: 2025-09-23
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In this episode, we sit down with Prateek Jain (Principal Scientist & Director at Google DeepMind) for an unfiltered deep dive into:

  • How AI research has evolved from handcrafted features → deep learning → transformers → generative
  • Why safety and efficiency matter just as much as scale
  • India’s once-in-a-generation chance to lead in deep AI research
  • The founder’s playbook: building sustainable AI-first companies
  • The next big bottlenecks — and opportunities — in this space

This is more than a conversation. It’s a blueprint for the future of AI. 🚀

📌 Episode Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction

03:00 – How Prateek stumbled into AI research in college

07:00 – The AlexNet moment and why it mattered

14:30 – GPUs, TPUs & scaling AI

16:20 – The ChatGPT moment & mass adoption

21:40 – Long reinforcement learning: the biggest surprise

24:00 – Bottlenecks in AI: data, efficiency, alignment

26:49 – India’s deep AI research challenge

50:44 – Founder advice for building with AI

👉 Watch the full episode now and subscribe for more thought leadership from India’s top founders and innovators.

#ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #AIInnovation #TechTrends #FutureOfAI #AIForStartups #IndiaTech #Entrepreneurship #StartupEcosystem #GoogleDeepMind  #PrimeVenturePartnersPodcast

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Why India Must Lead in Deep AI Research | Insights from Google DeepMind Director

Why India Must Lead in Deep AI Research | Insights from Google DeepMind Director