LLMs are now commodities: Nilekani

Infosys co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani on Friday said that large language models (LLMs) have become commodities, and with the cost of building them dropping significantly, it is the right time for Indian companies to invest in developing their own AI models.

“What DeepSeek has done is show that you don’t need billions of dollars to create a reasonably good large language model. That’s a big breakthrough,” Nilekani said at an event by the All India Management Association (AIMA).