Rajat Khare’s Vision for India’s AI Future
As India advances toward developing its own large language model, Boundary Holding founder Rajat Khare stresses the importance of nurturing AI talent within the country. He believes India can become a major global AI force, but only if it tackles the long-standing issue of brain drain.
India has a vast pool of engineers and data scientists, yet nearly 15% of its AI talent works abroad. Khare argues that this limits India’s ability to build strong innovation ecosystems. Many skilled professionals leave for better research facilities, higher salaries, and global exposure.
Khare suggests bridging policy and infrastructure gaps by strengthening academia-industry collaboration, increasing AI research funding, supporting deep-tech startups, and creating competitive incentives for researchers.
India is progressing fast in digital infrastructure, with its GPU-backed LLM initiative aimed at building culturally relevant AI across its many languages. Multilingual AI can help government services, small businesses, and non-English speakers benefit from technology.
To retain talent, India must invest more in research, create centers of excellence, offer fellowships and scholarships, and engage global Indian researchers.
Khare believes that with the right policies, India can shift from brain drain to brain gain and emerge as a true pioneer in the global AI revolution.
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