Become creators, not just consumers of tech

Vivek Wadhwa argued that future AI growth hinges on smaller, specialised models.

Vinod Dham says future breakthroughs require mastering foundation models first.

India should build enough AI capability for technological sovereignty while winning commercially at platform and application layers.

DeepSeek's success came after it mastered large-scale model training, distributed computing, optimisation, and reinforcement learning.