Meity secretary calls for greater collaboration among govt, industry, academia

Greater convergence and synergies among government agencies, industry and academia will be key for India to leapfrog in its technology evolution, S Krishnan, secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), said Friday.

“We are in the age of DeepSeek,” said Krishnan, referring to the frugally built open-source artificial intelligence model from China that took the tech world by storm in January. He said a lot of work in AI and innovation would be on building on existing models and efforts to take things forward rather than greenfield research.