India, Dec. 14 -- In the corridors of North Block and bustling tech parks of Bengaluru, a quiet validation arrived this week-not as diplomatic handshake or foreign trade deal, but as dense dataset from Palo Alto. The latest Global AI Vibrancy Tool, released by Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), has placed India third in global artificial intelligence pecking order for 2025. For the uninitiated, this might sound like just another index in a world obsessed with rankings; closer examination reveals story less about bronze medal and more about tectonic shift in how India reimagines its economic future. We have overtaken United Kingdom-birthplace of Alan Turing and DeepMind-and now sit behind only twin titans of the f...