The four key startups leading the race to build India's first LLM

With the government's support, work begins on foundational models for AI services
Aashish Aryan Avik Das New Delhi/Bengaluru
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India will be ready with its first indigenously developed artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) in six to eight months, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, on January 30 this year.
The move was seen as India's response to DeepSeek, an open-source LLM developed in China, reportedly at a fraction of the cost it took to create other models globally. (LLMs are AI programmes trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language.)
But Indian government officials say they are not merely reacting to events elsewhere. A plan to develop indigenous

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