“CCI study flags steep barriers for Indian AI startups, calls for open data and compute access to level playing field”, Money Control, October 12, 2025
“India’s competition watchdog has sounded a cautionary note on how the country’s AI ecosystem is evolving.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI), in its Market Study on Artificial Intelligence and Competition, released on October 6, 2025, noted that while Indian startups are driving much of the innovation in applied AI, they remain constrained by steep entry barriers and structural dependencies on global tech giants.
What stakeholders said
According to the study, nearly 67 percent of Indian AI startups work in the “AI application model layer”, with only 3 percent developing foundation models……..”
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