Indian IT companies have made their bets in preparation for the AI transformation, be it from building sovereign models to a Human+AI business model. However, in certain aspects like funding and research, India still remains in the backfoot raising concerns about India’s place in the global AI-verse. NASSCOM Vice-Chairperson Kishore Patil answered some of these larger questions around India’s AI rank and the potential road ahead as a products nation.
Considering the sovereign AI push, does relying on foreign AI models put us on a backfoot?Even in China, they say the models in California are very strong because the kind of investment, talent, taxes and the ecosystem for AI is very strong. So, the models coming in are very strong but are not the full solution. It’s a combination with the local small language models that people build. If a model has to really deliver any specific output there are a lot of other things we need to do in between such as contextual knowledge, localised data. As that will evolve I think we will have a much better sovereign models as well.
So, can India still become a serious AI power of the world?India we will be an application player, largely. We don’t have to be play the same game as other countries, we have our own strengths and even China is playing in applications but they have more balance and also some solid technology.
