AI CHATGPT and Deepseek applications on the user's phone in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, India, February 5, 2025.
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China shook markets at the beginning of this year, when his home startup Deepseek revealed a cheaper and more efficient model of artificial intelligence.
Because the history of India's growth and the knowing technology population is becoming more and more reflector, how far the country from the realization of its own OpenNAI or anthropic at lower costs?
We sat down with Kunal Bahl, a well -known entrepreneur and investor. He was a co -founder of Venture Capital Titan Capital and is the best known by the designation of Indian unicorn Snapdeal, a popular online market. He is also a judge at Shark Tank India.
“Considering the success of India in building, implementing and scaling public digital infrastructure … The appearance of an Indian deep search will probably take place in the price and public partnership over the next 4-5 years,” said Bahl.
Bahl emphasized some initiatives that could help Indy build their own models of large languages with global charm.
Fabricators
First of all, the production of chip, in which India's efforts collect a couple.
The Secretary of India Trade Piyush Goyal told me in October last year that India was able to Make your first chip in two years. We informed separately at the beginning of this year that Reliance Industries is in the process of building what the general director of Mukesh Ambani will have the world's largest data center in Gujarat.
Information of India for the production and design of the latest chips is not an easy feat. Just look at the challenges that Intel has in building and producing AI systems in the USA
However, India attracted support from the US semiconductors. Micron and AMD belong to American chip companies investing in the country. The CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, visited Bombaj in 2024, during which he announced a partnership with Reliation Industries on research and development of AI. Huang also promised access to the latest Blackwell Nvidia system.
“These partnerships recognize the important role that India play in the global ecosystem and is aimed at taking over the advantage of the first bringing by adapting to strong national conglomerates,” said Bahl.
Building more tokens in the country can be a way to limit the impact of American restrictions on chip export.
A few days before the departure of former president Joe Biden, he implemented a diffusion principle, which can limit not only China, but several countries from buying high-performance graphic processing units from the USA-in this India. This rule is to come into force this spring. President Donald Trump has the power to reverse him, but he did not indicate if he would do it.
AI innovation
In relation to AI, Bahl added that innovation can come from large Indian conglomerates, such as religious and dad, which build their own multimodal LLM for use in the industry. Reliance Jio, Dad Electronics, Adani Group, TCS and Infosys belong to the heavyweight in India, which Bahl quickly becomes hyperslain India.
After closing the Chinese market, American companies looked at help in building the Indian AI ecosystem. The founder and general director of Opeli Altman himself was in India at the beginning of February, when he met with him Minister Ashwini Vaishzyn. Vaishzyn has published on X that they both discussed OpenAI's interest in cooperation in order to “create the entire AI stack – GPU, model and application.” Altman shared that India is currently the second largest openai The market in terms of users.
Bahl believes that government programs such as “India Ai Mission”, which allocate 103 billion rupees ($ 1.2 billion) in five years to strengthen the capabilities of AI of the country, also play a key role.
He admitted that while the financing of India is growing, “it is still much lower than the US and China.”
The manager of India Bernstein Venugopal Garre is more cautious. He said that the lack of India investment in home technology makes it less likely that he would survive the battle of AI.
“Building deep technologies was not a priority (for India), because the products of American technological giants, currently run by several Indian general directors-were easily accessible. It is a sharp contrast with China, which instead created a competition with these companies in each area, from micro-twist to EV to models. own approach “in the Internet era, and now it's too late,” he said Garre.
Certainly being early does not always guarantee leadership.
“AI models are still in its infancy and it is still a blue ocean. It is similar to the war in the search engine in the early 90s and Google, the deceased participant, dominated on the market,” said CNBC Neil Shah, a partner and co-founder of ACTRAPINT Research.
Another risk, according to experts, is AI displacing jobs in the Indian technology sector. Akhil Gupta, former head of Blackstone India to CNBC, unemployment remains high and adding more performance tools, such as AI, can risk tightening a weak labor market in India.
The economic background of India and the young labor should set the country to be a leader in destructive technologies, but industry experts agree that if the emerging market does not direct enough time, resources and talent to determine its role in the AI landscape, it can become its victim.
“India is far behind in developing their own version of Deepseek, but what I can say when talking to many managers is that India woke up to the challenge and are inspired by China's success,” added Gupta.
We will watch and wait.
I need to know
The India government approves a new electronics production program. The initiative, which is supported by funds worth 22,919 Crore ($ 2.67 billion), was approved by the Union's office on Friday and is about it Build self -sufficiency in the electronics production sector in the country.
The India Reserve Bank accelerates open market operations. In the tax year 2025, India at the central bank bought the government of the India securities This amounted to a four -year maximum. His movement emphasizes the importance of liquidity management in the financial system to slow down economic growth in the country and uncertain international environment.
Tariff cuts as part of the US trade licenses Starting from January, India were Reduction of fees that it imposes on the US importsuch as motorcycle switches, whiskey and Ethernet. More importantly, the compensation fee of the Nation of South Asia has been lifted, which will tax the digital services offered by companies that are not residents.
The luxury sector in India is flourishing. Currently valued at $ 8 billion, It is forecasted that the luxury retail market will increase by 75% And it is worth $ 14 billion until 2032. Factors that drive this increase include the cultivation of people with high net value and brand of adapting their offers to Indian taste.
Temasek in Singapore concludes a contract with Haldram. Pursuant to the Singaporean agreement, the Investment Fund will be acquire participation in HaldramsThe Indian confectionery company announced on Sunday. A contract with Haldram's expansion abroad and is expected to close it soon.
What happened in the markets?
Indian actions were on a negative territory on Thursday after the announcement of US President Donald Trump 26% tariffs for the export of the country to the USA Nifty 50 It dropped by 0.17%, while the wider BSE Sensex rate dropped by 0.32% in 11:55 local time.
Both indexes have fallen since the beginning of the year, with Nifty 50 dropped by 1.56%, and BSE Sensex by 2.25%.
The 10-year profit of India's government bonds slightly increased to 6.490%.
On CNBC TV this week Vivian Thurston, portfolio manager at William Blair, noticed that India has one of the highest trade surpluses from the USA, India's export to the USA is only 2-3% of the gross domestic product in the country, so The impact of tariffs on economic growth will not be significantThurston said.
What is happening next week?
The India Reserve Bank will end its monetary policy meeting on Wednesday, when it is expected to reduce interest rates. The US and China consumer price indicator will be issued the next day, which gives investors insight into where the rates in these countries are going.
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