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Opinion | DeepSeek Shows Why Nandan Nilekani Is Right Dinesh Narayanan Opinion , The Indian government wants to deploy huge amounts of capital and resources to build its own models of artificial intelligence (AI) to compete with global firms, and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman just gave the idea a more than 1,000% backing. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced last week that half a dozen startups were working on a foundational AI model for India and it would be ready within eight to 10 months. India had procured about 18,600 high-end graphic processing units, including Nvidia's Hoppers, for them. Vaishnaw's announcement had an edge of urgency after Chinese startup DeepSeek created a minor earthquake in the AI world with its ridiculously cost-efficient model, R1. Minister Sitharaman raised the budgetary allocation for the national AI Mission to Rs 2,000 crore from Rs 173 crore last year, much of which is likely to be directed at building Large Language Models (LLM) ...