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DeepSeek is India’s final call to board the AI flight
The Chinese start-up is a disruptor that threatens India’s edge: code-writing on an industrial scale.
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Even with DeepSeek calling Silicon Valley’s bluff on costs, Indian tech companies are reluctant to take up foundational work in GenAI because success is not guaranteed.
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Andy Mukherjee
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The artificial intelligence (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 start-up’s AI models, which it began offering in January as open-source licences, have been built at a fraction of the cost of resource-intensive rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
