Needed: Jan AI

India must build its own LLMs and apps as part of the fabled 'India Stack' like it did with UPI and Aadhaar

- JASPREET BINDRA

ONE MIGHT THINK that the spark that ignited this revolution was ChatGPT in November 2022, but OpenAI’s runaway hit just provided the final kindling to a slow fire that was burning since 1955 when AI (artificial intelligence) was envisaged first in the now famous Dartmouth Conference. The pace of innovation in the last two years since ChatGPT is unmatched—with many powerful LLMs (Large Language Models) from Big Tech firms and start-ups beating humans in some faculties, a Cambrian Explosion of applications running on top of these foundation models bringing AI to workplaces and businesses, and recently the Chinese model DeepSeek upending the costs and resources narrative and promising to democratise AI.