New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- India is set to join the global AI race by launching foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models on the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and China's DeepSeek R1 over the next few months, according to the country's IT minister.

"The foundational models made in India will be able to compete with the best of the best in the world," electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a press briefing on Thursday. "With algorithmic efficiency, we can create these models in a much shorter time frame. We will have a world-class foundational AI model in just a few months."

The development comes in the backdrop of the debut of DeepSeek R1 on 20 January, which rattled global AI pioneers w...