{"id":957051,"date":"2025-08-23T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957051"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:57:58","slug":"et-soonicorns-summit-2025-india-lags-behind-the-us-china-in-foundational-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/et-soonicorns-summit-2025-india-lags-behind-the-us-china-in-foundational-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Soonicorns Summit 2025: \u201cIndia lags behind the US, China in foundational tech\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disconnect is jarring. Jonathan Ross from Groq visits Bengaluru. MIT researchers explore breakthrough AI concepts with Indian teams. A local team invents a transformer model that catches global attention. Yet, according to those closest to India&#8217;s startup ecosystem, there&#8217;s a strange absence of urgency among Indian entrepreneurs about the AI revolution unfolding around them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m in the US, I see the tech happening there, and when I return to India, it often feels like going back in time,&#8221; said Raghunandan G, founder of Zolve, whose fintech company operates between both markets. &#8220;Global leaders see the potential here. But strangely, I don&#8217;t think people in India feel that same sense of urgency or possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disconnect is jarring. Jonathan Ross from Groq visits Bengaluru. MIT researchers explore breakthrough AI concepts with Indian teams. A local team invents a transformer model that catches global attention. Yet, according to those closest to India&#8217;s startup ecosystem, there&#8217;s a strange absence of urgency among Indian entrepreneurs about the AI revolution unfolding around them. &#8220;When I&#8217;m in the US, I see the tech happening there, and when I return to India, it often feels like going back in time,&#8221; said Raghunandan G, founder of Zolve, whose fintech company operates between both markets. &#8220;Global leaders see the potential here. But [&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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957051","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\/957051","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=957051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}