India, June 4 -- Even as Indian startups are being roped in by the central government to build homegrown large language models (LLMs), IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh said that startups also need to think beyond India to compete and succeed against global giants.

Four Indian startups - SarvamAI, Soket AI Labs, Gnani.ai and Gan.ai - have been empanelled by the central government for the project focussing on the mission's foundational model pillar. The four startups will collaborate with the IndiaAI team to develop and deploy indigenous functional models trained on India-specific data.

But Singh emphasised that just because there are no guarantees of success just because an Indian startup is building LLMs for India. "They will have to ...