India, July 20 -- There are lots of low-hanging fruits when it comes to AI. Many of these are inflection-points which India has missed grabbing. But the game has just begun and we could crack it for the winning lap if we go after the low-hanging branches.

The branches being research, patents, funding and core AI stuff. At the 18th edition of Zinnov Confluence in Bangalore, CEO Pari Natarajan talked about where India stacks up in the global AI reckoning. He went for the jugular first by narrating weak spots and data that reflect India's slow and tepid advances in AI.

He said that as he dissected three key planks of AI and explained where India stands on them. Infrastructure is about data centres and hardware. Models are where talent dens...