Every few years a moment forces a nation to reconsider its trajectory. Deepseek, the latest Chinese breakthrough AI, caused one such counting in India.
The question is common: “Why can't India do what China has done?” The answer says, as Zoho's general director of SRIDHAR VEMBU, is simple: “India can and is not that hard.”
For decades, the Indian technology industry has been beneficial as an outsourcing center, but the Global AI leadership requires more than service revenues.
It requires basic research, long -term investments and cultural shifts towards innovation. However, when interviews were interviewed in the Indian delay in AI, they often dissolve into guilt – on reservations, to manage public affairs, about bureaucracy.
But as he emphasizes, Chinese entrepreneurs never had it easy. Yet China is competing with Silicon Valley.
At the Reddit Indian student from the Premier Institute, he made a grim observation: “The ship sailed for a long time.” He claimed that China, although on hardware, used aggressive research with an open source code to undermine American dominance. Indian companies, on the other hand, remain stuck in low -risk AI applications.
“We have never caught any bus, train or cycle of technical revolution,” another user wrote. “All these self -discipline is for the income of IT services. We are not really near what the world achieves.”
The criticism is sharp, but it is not unfounded. The largest Indian corporations largely avoid research -intensive fields. Government financing for NEFARM research remains rare. Academic systems Awards engineering titles for basic scientific investigation.
Even in Davos 2025, the chairman of HCLTECH ROSHNI NADAR Malhotra acknowledged the gap: “Indian companies focus on practical cases of AI use, but are not yet at the top of AI research.”
Meanwhile, Deepseek has already transformed global markets. The AI race has wiped $ 1 trillion from Nasdaq, with NVIDIA lost nearly $ 600 billion – it's the biggest decline in history. Ai AI assistant even overtaken Chatgpt in the Apple App Store, USA and the UK.
