{"id":902680,"date":"2025-02-04T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=902680"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:15:29","slug":"india-must-choose-import-ai-breakthroughs-or-create-them-says-lightspeeds-hemant-mohapatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/04\/india-must-choose-import-ai-breakthroughs-or-create-them-says-lightspeeds-hemant-mohapatra\/","title":{"rendered":"India must choose: Import AI breakthroughs or create them, says Lightspeed\u2019s Hemant Mohapatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s latest budget, with its sizable allocation for roads, rails, and logistics, has been lauded for driving economic growth. Yet it largely sidesteps the question of how to anchor the nation\u2019s future in artificial intelligence. Critics might argue that India cannot afford moonshot pursuits, but history shows that countries commanding the deepest layers of a transformational technology\u2014like oil in the early 20th century or semiconductors in the late 20th\u2014often gain decades of sustained advantage. This is India\u2019s \u201cDeepSeek moment,\u201d a juncture where we must decide whether to simply import AI breakthroughs or help create them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s latest budget, with its sizable allocation for roads, rails, and logistics, has been lauded for driving economic growth. Yet it largely sidesteps the question of how to anchor the nation\u2019s future in artificial intelligence. Critics might argue that India cannot afford moonshot pursuits, but history shows that countries commanding the deepest layers of a transformational technology\u2014like oil in the early 20th century or semiconductors in the late 20th\u2014often gain decades of sustained advantage. This is India\u2019s \u201cDeepSeek moment,\u201d a juncture where we must decide whether to simply import AI breakthroughs or help create them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902680","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}