Minister Sitharaman raised the budgetary allocation for the national AI Mission to Rs 2,000 crore from Rs 173 crore last year, much of which is likely to be directed at building Large Language Models (LLMs). India had procured about 18,600 high-end graphic processing units, including Nvidia's Hoppers, for them. Even private entrepreneurial attempts at replicating globally popular tech products or services, such as short-video apps, a la TikTok, or a Twitter clone, only ended up burning millions of venture funds.  “Let the big boys in the (Silicon) Valley do it, spending billions of dollars. We will use it to create synthetic data, build small language models quickly, and train them using appropriate data,” Nilekani said. He is Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys. https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/deepseek-shows-why-nandan-nilekani-is-right-7623925