India, April 3 -- In 2022, Nando de Freitas, a researcher at Google DeepMind, declared on X, "It's all about scale now! The game is over!" But was it?

Fast forward to 2025, the AI landscape has shifted dramatically. Almost three years after OpenAI's ChatGPT brought in the Generative AI (GenAI) frenzy in 2022, a new young and ambitious company, DeepSeek, has now defied expectations by launching an open, smaller, and more efficient model at a significantly low cost that outperforms the heavily funded giants like OpenAI and Google Gemini.

This is the essence of GenAI: constant reinvention and relentless innovation. What was groundbreaking yesterday is obsolete today. But what's happening in India, particularly?

After much back and forth, ...