Under the mission, India has launched initiatives concerning various aspects of the Innovation landscape, capacity infrastructure to stimulate innovation. India has allocated around 10,300 rupees as part of this mission in the next five years. A major objective of the mission is to build high -end common IT installations equipped with 18,693 Graphic processing units. To guarantee access to abundant IT architecture, the government has introduced an open GPU market, allowing startups, researchers and students to access highly efficient IT architecture. Although the Indian government is making progress in promoting AI investments, the private sector contribution is relatively low, a conclusion supported by the classification of India in the report of the Stanford AI index. India ranked 8th in AI private investment, attracting $ 1.39 billion in 2023, compared to $ 67.22 billion in the United States and $ 7.76 billion in China. Regarding the concentration of AI, India remains behind Israel and Singapore despite its talent pool which has increased by 263% since 2016. While the ia startup ecosystem in India is developing, ranking 8th in the world with 45 new AI start-ups in 2023, it still follows established innovation hubs.
Until now, India’s attention has been greatly focused on catching up rather than pioneering innovation. While countries like the United States and China are in common in basic research on AI, the ECA ecosystem of India is dominated by applications based on services rather than the development of revolutionary interstation models. This excessive dependence on IT services rather than promoting innovation in depth limits the ability of India to define global AI trends. The lack of innovation in the field is affirmed by the fact that India contributes only 0.23% of the patents of AI deposited worldwide, far behind 61.13% of China. To induce innovation in space and build competitive AI models worldwide, the Indian government has called for proposals for startups and researchers to build models of AI specifically trained on Indian data sets. As part of this initiative, the Indian government received 67 proposals from the university and industry to build such models. In addition, the government has developed the Indiaai dataset game platform to train AI models, offering platform manufacturers access to a unified repository of high-quality anonymized data sets to form their models. Based on government initiatives, there is a shared responsibility for the private sector to also contribute to the progress of the AI, possibly, thanks to increased collaboration with the university world thanks to joint research programs and internships to maintain new talents within their organization, provoking new innovation in the industry.
Beyond the promotion of innovation, the development of a power of AI requires a highly qualified workforce. The equipment of this workforce of the skills necessary for all levels of education is the critical responsibility of the country’s education system. To this end, India has launched the Future Skills Prime program. The program focuses on reskilling and the implementation of IT workers by offering 119 courses on AI and other technologies such as Robotic press automationAugmented / virtual reality, and many others. To provide a platform for students, especially in level 2 and level 3 cities, the government has established data and AI labels offering India AI scholarships to students who take undergraduate and third cycle lessons. However, the mission of the AI of India lacks initiatives to integrate the education of AI into the school system, a critical gap in the creation of a future workforce. Without early exposure, students are missing the essential fundamental skills for AI advanced careers. China has been aggressive in this regard. More recently, Beijing has announced AI lessons for primary and secondary students, guaranteeing early exposure to AI concepts. From September 2025, schools should introduce AI -focused programs, integrating AI into programs after school, research projects and extracurricular activities. More than 500 universities in China already offer AI lessons, and the best institutions such as the University of Peking are widening registration in the fields related to AI. This structured approach reflects a long -term commitment to the domination of the AI, ensuring that future generations are equipped with the skills necessary to compete in a global economy focused on AI.
Although the equipment of cutting-edge AI skills is crucial, India is faced with an even more urgent challenge which is to keep its highly qualified workforce. Between 2015 and 2022, 1.3 million Indians left the country for higher wages and advanced research infrastructure. Brain flight has a significant impact on the development of AI in the country because it exhausts its pool with qualified professionals. This exodus weakens domestic innovation while India loses the expertise required to stimulate advanced AI projects. This leads to companies faced with talent shortages in the sector, to delay product developments and to reduce global competitiveness. The inclination of tackling the question of the strong brain leak lies strongly in the private sector. The private sector must focus on creating an environment conducive to the retention and growth of talents, which would limit the fleeing brains in the country. In addition to providing competitive wages and professional advancement opportunities, companies should promote a culture of research and experimentation within their organization. To promote R&D, companies should establish internal innovation laboratories and ensure hassle access to advanced tools for all employees.
While the global poker game intensifies, where AS is AS, India recognizes that the impression of cards is insufficient. A full house, a winning hand, requires more than government initiatives; It requires a concerted effort in the private sector to amplify investments and mitigate brains’ leak. To ensure that future generations are treated with a winning hand, AI education must be integrated at the start, a strategic piece to obtain future AS. By strategically combining these movements and relying on this solid basis, India can transform its emerging bridge into a formidable force, ready to compete in the highest table.(Amit Kapoor, is president and Kartik, is a researcher at the Institute of Competitiveness).