{"id":1008736,"date":"2026-05-19T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008736"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:56:34","slug":"silicon-valley-is-spending-700-billion-on-ai-why-is-india-trying-to-match-the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/silicon-valley-is-spending-700-billion-on-ai-why-is-india-trying-to-match-the-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley is spending $700 billion on AI: Why is India trying to match the math?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1982, the global technology elite feared Japan\u2019s \u201cFifth Generation\u201d computer project. Armed with Tokyo\u2019s billions, the state tried to build an AI supercomputer to break America\u2019s computing monopoly. A decade later, the project closed \u2014 eclipsed not by a rival Government, but by the capitalised rise of the Silicon Valley personal computer. <\/p>\n<p>Tech history is an unforgiving graveyard of state \u2014 funded vanity projects. Yet, walking through the corridors of power in New Delhi today, the exact same gears are grinding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1982, the global technology elite feared Japan\u2019s \u201cFifth Generation\u201d computer project. Armed with Tokyo\u2019s billions, the state tried to build an AI supercomputer to break America\u2019s computing monopoly. A decade later, the project closed \u2014 eclipsed not by a rival Government, but by the capitalised rise of the Silicon Valley personal computer. Tech history is an unforgiving graveyard of state \u2014 funded vanity projects. Yet, walking through the corridors of power in New Delhi today, the exact same gears are grinding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008767,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008736\/revisions\/1008767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}