{"id":1031403,"date":"2026-08-27T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031403"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:06:08","slug":"india-now-has-the-ingredients-to-build-frontier-ai-shyamal-anadkat-former-researcher-at-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/india-now-has-the-ingredients-to-build-frontier-ai-shyamal-anadkat-former-researcher-at-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India now has the ingredients to build frontier AI\u2019: Shyamal Anadkat, Former researcher at OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly four years at OpenAI, Shyamal Anadkat, former researcher with the AI firm, returned to India earlier this year to build a stealth venture focused on AI for scientific discovery. In an interview with Poulomi Chatterjee, he discusses India\u2019s AI opportunity, the talent returning from global labs and lessons from OpenAI. Excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>Q. What made you return to India? <\/p>\n<p>I grew up in India and moved to the US after 18. But over the past few years, I felt increasingly connected to the ecosystem here. The startup landscape has gained momentum, and I had worked with companies such as Portkey and Composia before joining OpenAI. Sarvam\u2019s growth in sovereign AI has also been exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly four years at OpenAI, Shyamal Anadkat, former researcher with the AI firm, returned to India earlier this year to build a stealth venture focused on AI for scientific discovery. In an interview with Poulomi Chatterjee, he discusses India\u2019s AI opportunity, the talent returning from global labs and lessons from OpenAI. Excerpts: Q. What made you return to India? I grew up in India and moved to the US after 18. But over the past few years, I felt increasingly connected to the ecosystem here. The startup landscape has gained momentum, and I had worked with companies such as [&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-1031403","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\/1031403","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=1031403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031423,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031403\/revisions\/1031423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}