India is preparing to develop its own large language model, and Rajat Khare—founder of Boundary Holding—believes its biggest strength is its talent pool. However, he warns that India cannot become a global AI leader unless it addresses the persistent issue of brain drain.
Although India produces world-class engineers and data scientists, nearly 15% of global AI talent of Indian origin works abroad. Khare argues this is due not to lack of capability but to weak research infrastructure, limited funding, and fewer incentives for innovators at home.
He highlights the need for stronger academia-industry collaboration, better financial support for deep-tech research, and a welcoming ecosystem for researchers. India’s ongoing digital transformation, including building an LLM using over 18,600 GPUs, marks a major step toward AI independence. Its key advantage lies in multilingual AI, capable of understanding India’s diverse languages and cultural contexts, making technology more inclusive.
To retain talent, India must increase research funding, offer competitive scholarships and pay, support deep-tech startups, enable global collaboration, and showcase its ambitions through events like the 2026 Global AI Summit.
With the right policies, India can transform brain drain into brain gain and become a true AI innovation hub.
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