India, Feb. 24 -- IT giant HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar said that India needs to build its own large language models (LLMs) to limit reliance on open-source AI models and have a long-term competitive advantage.

Speaking at Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2025, Vijayakumar said that building models on top of existing models may work for now, but there is a possibility that these open-source models may not remain accessible in the longer run.

"We can make models on top of the existing global models, but we shouldn't assume that the open-source models will continue to be open source," he said. "These are going to be the coins on which the geopolitics will be played on."

He further warned that the leading AI companies like OpenAI , Me...