From Brain Drain To Base Camp: How Bharat1 Is Trying To Anchor AI In India

Founded by Subhashish Banerjee, Umakant Soni, and Sireesh Kupendra, Bharat1.ai is working to build an AI city in Bengaluru.

It aims to bring together startups, academic institutions like IITs and BITS, and large enterprises such as banks to set up teams here.

More than 20 startups are building out of the facility, benefiting from the network, infrastructure, mentorship, and availability of talent

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From Perplexity cofounder Aravind Srinivas and Anthropic CTO Rahul Patil to big tech giants such as Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Indian brains are driving deeptech and AI businesses in the West.  

But, India ironically lags behind countries like the US and China in terms of the number of homegrown deeptech companies. Enter Bharat1.ai, a startup trying to bridge this gap.

Founded earlier this year by Subhashish Banerjee, Umakant Soni, and Sireesh Kupendra, the company has set up an AI city in Bengaluru. In its first phase, the........

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