Why Reliance Jio AI chief says India must stop building on borrowed AI

Key points

• India isn’t innovating in AI;
• rather, it is renting intelligence to build upon.
• That was the underlying theme of the thought-provoking insights shared by Gaurav Aggarwal, chief AI scientist at Reliance Jio.
• India is currently focused on building applications on top of LLMs (large language models) that have already been developed in the Global North.
• This, Aggarwal argued, needs to change.