Ajay Puri on AI infrastructure
From NDTV Ind.AI Summit - NVIDIA's Jay Puri Breaks Down 5-Layer AI Cake · · NDTV
“AI is unleashing a new industrial revolution — it's going to be as essential infrastructure as electricity, transportation, or the internet, and the impact on society is going to be huge.”
On , Ajay Puri, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Nvidia, spoke about AI infrastructure during NDTV Ind.AI Summit - NVIDIA's Jay Puri Breaks Down 5-Layer AI Cake on NDTV.
About Ajay Puri
At the NDTV Ind.AI Summit on February 18, 2026, Ajay Puri discussed AI's impact on employment, stating that while some jobs will be lost, many new jobs will be created. He argued that AI increases productivity, which typically raises company profits and enables further hiring, and that AI will democratize services like healthcare and agriculture in India. Puri also described AI as "a new industrial revolution" and said Nvidia has increased computing by 1 million times in the past decade. Puri said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has "great aspirations for AI to democratise things for the global south" and that Nvidia is supporting India's sovereign AI strategy by providing open models, data sets, and tool sets to domestic companies. He dismissed concerns of an AI bubble, stating that the technology is already driving revenue and investment and will require "several trillion dollars worth of infrastructure." He outlined Nvidia's "five-layer cake" AI stack, comprising energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications.