India should just fine-tune the AI models that exist: Groq CEO Jonathan Ross

India must focus on building artificial intelligence applications and fine-tuning already existing models instead of spending top dollars on developing foundational models and AI chips, says Jonathan Ross, cofounder and chief executive of Groq, a Silicon Valley-based AI chip startup seen as a challenger to Nvidia. The company, which is betting on “inference economies”, or generating insights from available data, is creating a peering network between India and its data centre in Saudi Arabia that has brought live 19,000 AI inferencing clusters within eight days, Ross tells ET’s Himanshi Lohchab in an interview. Ross, who cofounded the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) at Google, is mildly annoyed with people confusing Groq with Elon Musk’s AI models ‘Grok’ and says his company has sent a ‘cease and desist’ notice to the Tesla boss, asking him to stop using the name. Edited excerpts: