- Published on September 17, 2025
- In Global Tech
Quantum Computing Could Make GPUs Obsolete, Says NxtGen CEO
“Over the last 10 years, big tech companies have doubled their operating profit, from 34% to 63%.”
- By Siddharth Jindal
Artificial intelligence today is influenced as much by capital and geopolitics as by technology. Control of GPUs has become a strategic lever for countries to maintain their sovereignty.
At Cypher 2025, India’s largest AI conference organised by AIM, AS Rajgopal, founder and CEO of NxtGen, built on this theme in his keynote. He said only a handful of countries can build frontier models, while almost 95% of GPUs come from companies such as NVIDIA.
“Over the last 10 years, big tech companies have doubled their operating profit, from 34% to 63%,” Rajgopal said. He pointed out that nearly ₹3 lakh crore is being spent this year alone on compute infrastructure.
Between AGI Dreams and Quantum Horizons
Rajgopal cautioned against conflating generative AI with artificial ge
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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