India, Jan. 29 -- AI is emerging to be the new battleground for global powers to show their dominance. Days after Trump announced $500 billion in building AI infra across the US generating over 1.00.000 jobs, Chinese startup DeepSeek rolled out R1, challenging OpenAI's model.

With India making strides in deep tech and AI, and its rising prominence in space tech, it appears that the Indian government and large tech services companies should start evaluating a global plan to be a strong contender as an AI partner.

As India's geopolitics leans towards being a US ally, Indian tech giants stand at the precipice of fast changing industry, which is seeing accelerated disruption. As the US starts building data centres across the country, this c...