A challenging road ahead for India’s DeepSeek moment in AI development
By
Binu Mathew
Even as the world was marvelling at DeepSeek, another China-based tech firm Alibaba announced a new version of its Qwen 2.5 AI model, which surpassed the performance of the DeepSeek V3 on several key benchmarks.
The back-to-back announcements of advanced AI models from Chinese companies have raised some questions in India too. What is stopping it from developing its own foundational AI model?