Building AI platforms & products a far cry

There have been many naysayers in the last three decades who criticised Indian IT for only trading on its vast pool of trained manpower and putting them on client projects onsite and offshore. The clamour to build products and intellectual property out of India has been louder after the recent launch of StarGate from US and DeepSeek from China and there is an expectation that Indian innovation will come to the fore with a slew of large language models and AI products and platforms emerging from Indian startups and incumbent services firms.