“India Hasn’t Missed The AI Bus, Indian Capital Is Holding It Back”, Swarajya, May 06, 20276
“The Indian conversation about artificial intelligence has settled into an anxious, deferential, faintly fatalistic mood. India is, after the United States, the second-largest user of ChatGPT in the world, and its largest free user. Every fortnight, a new think-tank paper warns that the country has fallen behind, that we ought to have started ten years ago, that the frontier of artificial intelligence is already a closed shop between Silicon Valley and Hangzhou.
Vivek Raghavan, who built Aadhaar’s biometric infrastructure over twelve years and is now co-founder of Sarvam AI, takes a quieter and more interesting view. India, he argues, hasn’t missed the bus; Indian capital has refused to board it.
Speaking on a recent episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast, in conversation with host Roshan Cariappa, Raghavan made the technical case bluntly. The frontier of AI, with its GPT-5s, Claudes and Geminis that cost their builders hundreds of billions of dollars, is not where the action for a country like India lies. That money buys the last few per cent of capability…….”
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