India, March 13 -- Former Infosys CFO and partner at Aarin Capital TV Mohandas Pai reportedly believes that India should focus on "cost-effective" ways to fuel advancements in the artificial intelligence (AI) space.

Citing his rationale, Pai, as per Business Standard, said that the country cannot afford to put billions of dollars annually into AI research and development (R&D).

"We can't put billions of dollars in R&D every single year because we don't have that kind of money. What DeepSeek did is very unique. They brought down the computing requirement by 75%," he reportedly said at the TiEcon Mumbai 2025 event.

The veteran investor also underscored that Indian AI companies should focus on developing vertical large language models (LL...