{"id":1009983,"date":"2026-05-26T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009983"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:35:11","slug":"funding-riddle-for-desi-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/funding-riddle-for-desi-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding riddle for desi AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dual shock (Claude Cowork and Citrini report) to the Indian IT sector on either side of the ides of February highlights the existential necessity \u2014 India should gear up to an IP-driven tech ecosystem. This transition requires massive financing. The government should provide strategic funding, not corporate charity. It should provide anchor capital to fund innovation and risk-taking. The temptation to dictate the technology arc should be resisted, as empirical evidence suggests government funding of start-ups leads to a weak and mediocre start-up ecosystem. The private sector has to pick up the mantle, but for the scale at which it is needed, the two questions are \u2014 can and will it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dual shock (Claude Cowork and Citrini report) to the Indian IT sector on either side of the ides of February highlights the existential necessity \u2014 India should gear up to an IP-driven tech ecosystem. This transition requires massive financing. The government should provide strategic funding, not corporate charity. It should provide anchor capital to fund innovation and risk-taking. The temptation to dictate the technology arc should be resisted, as empirical evidence suggests government funding of start-ups leads to a weak and mediocre start-up ecosystem. The private sector has to pick up the mantle, but for the scale at which [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009983","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=1009983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010000,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009983\/revisions\/1010000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}