India, April 24 -- What is the state of early stage AI investments in India and are investors changing the way they evaluate startups and founders amid raging debates on sovereign models, Indian LLMs as a key focus area, beyond GenAI applications and SaaS tools?

More and more investors are factoring in the influence of GenAI and its future potential impact on sectors and industries when evaluating early stage deals.Even two years into the AI revolution, Indian venture capital in AI is concentrated towards startups in the applications and developer tools layer.

Murmurs of sovereign models and made-in-India large language models might yet influence the course of VC dollars flowing into AI this year, but it's still too early to call this a...