India, Jan. 29 -- The release of DeepSeek R1, a Chinese AI model, has sent shockwaves through the world. A significant milestone in the AI race, the release of R1 has proven that Chinese companies can now build foundation models at a level comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude, or Google DeepMind's Gemini.

While Silicon Valley is still reverberating from shock, closer home, a different kind of question is on everyone's mind: Why has India, with its plethora of software engineers, not been able to build AI the way China and the US have?

An Indian professional in the AI space has answered this complex question.

Indian-origin American author Sadanand Dhume took to social media to ask the pressing question of why India is laggin...