India, July 28 -- Without urgent course correction, increased R&D spending, and bolder innovation strategies, the country risks being left behind in a race that will define the future of economies, geopolitics and national security

A press release issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in March 2025 claimed that India was on the cusp of an AI revolution, having allocated Rs 10,300 crore, or US$ 1.2 billion, over the next five years to develop a high-end common computing facility equipped with 18,693 GPUs, making it one of the most extensive AI compute infrastructures globally.

This can give India substantial computing power, given that the Chinese open-source AI model DeepSeek uses only 2000 GPUs and op...