The AI flight is taking off, and DeepSeek is the final call for India to show up at the boarding gate. Since its private sector is too risk averse to back research projects with uncertain payoffs, the state will have to step up.
The Chinese startup’s artificial intelligence models, which it began offering last month as open-source licenses, have been built at a fraction of the cost of resource-intensive rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. The US tech industry and Wall Street investors are rightly viewing DeepSeek as a disruptor. Silicon Valley firms are putting down hundreds of billion dollars to fend off the challenge. New York state has banned DeepSeek’s AI assistant from government devices.
India is watching the economic and political contest from the sidelines. That’s dangerously complacent. Unlike in manufacturing or transportation, where it has already ceded a large lead to its neighbor, here’s a race that’s still wide open. But unless the most-populous nation puts its globally acknowledged edge in software programming to work, the moment will pass it by.
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