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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱—𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 In today’s AI boom, 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. You just don’t hear their names enough. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: Over 𝟏𝟐% 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 who contributed to top AI papers (like GPT, BERT, AlphaFold) are of 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩? 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢 (Google DeepMind, Gemini AI) 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐲𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 (Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI investment) 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐢’𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 at Anthropic (multiple Indian researchers) 𝐈𝐥𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 at OpenAI had Indian engineers working on ChatGPT. India has quietly become 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲. 𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲? Because the breakthroughs happen outside India. Here’s the painful truth: 4 out of the top 5 AI unicorns (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Inflection AI) are US-based. India’s AI startups raised only ~$𝟔 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 from 2017-2024. U.S. AI startups raised 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 $𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 during the same period. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭. India produces 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 every year than the U.S. and Europe combined. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Weak R&D funding (India spends only 𝟎.𝟕% 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐃𝐏 on research vs. 𝟐.𝟕% in the U.S.) Lack of cutting-edge compute access (AI models need massive GPUs, which Indian startups can't easily afford) Limited venture capital for deep tech startups 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁? India exports 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 The world imports 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 Billion-dollar breakthroughs happen abroad 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: India doesn’t have a talent problem. It has an ecosystem problem. If we want to 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, not just contribute to it: We must invest heavily in AI R&D and compute infrastructure. Create national missions for frontier tech—like China’s "AI 2030" plan. Make India a magnet for AI builders, not just an exporter of workers. Because 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 only builds dreams—for someone else.

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