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- Published on October 14, 2025
- In AI Features
Is India Building AI for the West Again?
Indian enterprises take AI startups seriously only if their products are backed by international validation.
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- By Mohit Pandey
India’s AI moment is slowly taking shape with IndiaAI Mission, Indian IT announcing billions of dollars of investment, and big-tech firms from the West setting up shop in India. But, is the last one really good news?
It’s déjà vu, if only AI is actually being built for India, and not just in the country.
Indian engineers, developers, data scientists may be powering the next wave of AI, yet most of it isn’t for India. It’s for the West. Even though there is a push for sovereignty in AI and tech, given the recent examples of the push for Zoho and MapMyIndia, the pattern seems to be a puzzle.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and ElevenLabs are setting up offices, hiring talent, running pilot projects here. But the question is if they are actually building anything for Bh
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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