New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant future. It is already here, reshaping industries and everyday life. In Episode 5 of India for the World, a leadership podcast by Mint and BCG, host Shouvik Das explores India's rapidly evolving AI ecosystem with Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and IT and CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, and Saibal Chakraborty, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG.

Their conversation unpacks how India is making AI accessible to the masses, addressing computing power shortages and building indigenous solutions that could serve as blueprints for the Global South. From subsidised GPUs to voice-first large language models (LLMs), the IndiaAI Mission is la...