Indian AI Dev: Missing the 2022 Window to Fund Frontier Labs Will Haunt India's IT Industry
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-10-13
An Indian AI practitioner argues that even accounting for 2019-2020 skepticism about transformers, 2022 was the moment for India to invest heavily in R&D and build frontier labs — at a cost of only a few thousand crores, cheap compared to the consequences.
- He frames India's IT industry as relying on services alone with almost no R&D investment, a path whose cost 'history would discuss again and again'
- The thread captures a broader critique of why India has been absent from the generative AI frontier
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