The Race Beyond Chips: India’s Data Opportunity
By
Binu Mathew
When Stanford University dropped its 2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report earlier this month, the global headlines predictably obsessed over the flashy milestones. The media fixated on surging corporate investments and models outsmarting humans in math Olympiads. But buried beneath the charts detailing trillions of dollars in tech market caps was a quiet, existential warning. The most advanced computational systems on the planet are hitting a wall.
