
DeepSeek: 'Why can't India do what China did'
FirstpostIn response to the question why a ChatGPT- or R1-like artificial intelligence model has not emerged from India, industry veterans have said that such models can emerge from India if there is sustained funding in a protected marketplace-like ecosystem backed by the government DeepSeek researchers have claimed that they spent under $6 million on its latest AI model launched on January 10 – a fraction of what tech companies such as Apple and Microsoft spend. Reuters Following the waves that China’s DeepSeek R1 aritifical intelligence has made, industry veterans have weighed in whether India can develop similar AI models. As the world makes sense of DeepSeek’s R1, questions have been raised whether India can also develop a similar AI model. Chinese entrepreneurs never had it easy and still don't have it easy.… https://t.co/W2C8aakdn6 — Sridhar Vembu January 29, 2025 The case for India making ChatGPT-, R1-like systems The post of the self-proclaimed Amazon AI professional that Vembu shared said that, unlike popular perception, DeepSeek is not a unique Chinese startup and the development of an AI model is also not very hard.
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