India, June 22 -- With a collaborative push from the Centre and four generative AI startups - Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani.AI, and Gan.AI - India is not far from launching its frontier AI models.

Until last year, India's tech community had been debating whether the country should develop its very own foundational large language models (LLMs).

From technocrat Nandan Nilekani to tech startup founders, including CRED's Kunal Shah, and many VCs, have often questioned the viability of splurging on building desi foundational LLMs.

"Let the big boys in the (Silicon) Valley do it, spending billions of dollars. We will use it to create synthetic data, build small language models quickly, and train them using appropriate data." Nilekani said last ...