Shyam Krishnakumar
Global Ai and Market Power Fellow @European Ai & Society Fund
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WORK HISTORY
Global Ai and Market Power Fellow @European Ai & Society Fund
Topic: Democratising AI Infrastructure with Open Cloud ComputeAbout the Project: While popular narrative around AI development suggests disruption of the competitive landscape through open models and frameworks, evidence suggests that it has entrenched market concentration with only a handful of corporations owning the compute infrastructure and technical capabilities to develop and deploy AI at scale. Consequently, most companies are becoming increasingly dependent on these hyperscalers along with their bundled services. These hyperscalers often abuse their market dominance through customer lock-ins using committed spend discounts, tying and bundling, and higher egress fees. Through a mixed methods study we will explore if a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) based approach to open cloud computing for AI, aided by enabling policy and technical frameworks can emerge as a viable alternative to existing market concentration in compute infrastructure. We will identify principles of ‘openness’, including interoperability and decentralization, that are essential to an open cloud infrastructure initiative and explore ways to ensure such initiatives remain immune from dominance by large private players. We will also propose regulatory frameworks through which relevant regulators can reverse such gatekeeping efforts. The study will aim to provide actionable evidence-based recommendations to inform India’s approach to AI regulation and development including suitable frameworks for DPI governance.
EDUCATION
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Master of Arts - MA, Political Science and International Affairs
SKILLS
ABOUT SHYAM KRISHNAKUMAR
Shyam Krishnakumar is Co-Founder, The Pranava Institute, which works at the intersection…
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