Many of today’s most powerful artificial-intelligence systems rely on technologies created by Indian-origin researchers. Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar helped develop the Transformer architecture that underlies modern generative AI. Soumith Chintala helped create PyTorch, one of the world’s leading AI development frameworks. Karthik Narasimhan co-authored the first GPT paper at OpenAI, while Prafulla Dhariwal co-created GPT-3, DALL-E 2, and GPT-4o. Anima Anandkumar advanced large-scale machine-learning methods. Together, their contributions provided key foundations for the modern AI revolution.
