Whenever a new sector takes off, India responds with a mission and about Rs 10,000 crore in funding.

For AI, that meant picking 12 companies to build indigenous products for government work and public welfare. That was step one.

Step two has been much slower. 

M worked on Project Indus, Tech Mahindra’s open-source large language model (LLM) designed to support Hindi and its dialects. He remembers meeting officials from the Department of Agriculture to explain the model’s farm-related technical capabilities—latency,........

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