Source: ET
Context:
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) partnered with Nvidia to strengthen sovereign AI infrastructure for India’s payment ecosystem. Aim: Develop a payments-focused foundational AI model aligned with India’s regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.
Key Features of the Partnership
1. Payments-Native AI Foundation
- AI designed specifically for high-volume, real-time digital payments.
- Supports:
- Trust and security
- Operational intelligence
- Fraud monitoring and resilience
- Faster grievance redressal
2. Use of Nvidia Nemotron Models
- NPCI will use Nemotron open AI models to build domain-specific systems.
- Capabilities include:
- Advanced reasoning
- Agentic AI systems
- Multilingual processing
- Information retrieval
3. Scalable AI Architecture
- May use Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture.
- Designed for:
- Low latency
- High transaction volumes
- Population-scale payment systems
