India's pretraining gap isn't GPU smuggling — it's underinvestment, argues researcher
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-13
Responding to a claim that India lacks resources to pretrain large models while China somehow does, teortaxesTex pushes back: illegally obtained GPUs are harder and pricier than legal ones (smuggling NVL72 racks is a nightmare; China mostly buys DGX B300s legally). India's real problem is simply underinvestment — its current GPU pool is a tiny fraction of even one US data center, and it could buy far more through legal channels if it chose to.
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