India, July 7 -- The crucial question in the current context is: Where support from the Indian Government is crucial for the development of Indian LLMs, and whether Indian startups in the AI space can realistically develop LLMs without government support.

This is further a broad reflection on the topic of whether government support is mandatory for large-scale AI development.

Let us take the global precedent to reflect upon the ground-level reality.

In reality, Global Large Language Models more or less across the world like GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama, Claude, Mistral, etc, have all been primarily invested in and developed by private enterprises and or startups with or without VC funding.

In most cases, there has been a large tech company l...