India’s AI mission: Options & pathways

The flurry of activity in the global tech scene since January indicates the changing complexion of the race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy. DeepSeek (DS), a Chinese AI company, officially released its super chatbot DeepSeek-R1 (DS-R1) on the day Donald Trump assumed office. With its mix of high inference capabilities, low computing costs, and zero application programming interface fees, DS-R1 has become a global sensation, sending tremors to US tech giants operating in the generative AI (GenAI) space.