New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- African AI startups are turning to India for a critical resource: compute power. At this week's summit in Delhi, founders from South Africa and Nigeria said that accessing India's graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure, priced significantly below AWS, Azure, and other Western cloud providers, could transform their ability to build and scale AI systems.

"It would be a big boon that cuts down costs significantly," said Botshelo Baloyi, chief executive and founder of UmKhoAI, Africa's first offline national AI ecosystem. UmKhoAI Public allows AI access without buying data, wifi, orinternet access-a crucial feature for a continent where connectivity remains patchy. The company has built an AI model with a languag...