India’s AI moment will be defined by architecture.
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In our new series Intelligent Indians! we sit down with the builders, policymakers, scientists, and founders shaping India’s AI decade as it unfolds. In the first episode, Avnish Bajaj and Vikram Vaidyanathan sit down with Abhishek Singh, CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, to unpack how India is designing AI as infrastructure, not experimentation.

The conversation goes deep into what Abhishek describes as “DPI to the power of AI” for an ai learner in India extending India’s proven Digital Public Infrastructure (Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, Account Aggregator and more) into the AI era and India AI Mission. The discussion covers how population-scale systems, once thought impossible, are now becoming India’s execution advantage.

This conversation is a must watch for anyone curious about:
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1. How affordable compute, open datasets, and India-native foundation models remove first-order constraints
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2. The seven pillars shaping of the IndiaAI mission:from compute and data to deployment, trust, and governance

3. Why AI in India must work across languages, income levels, devices, and real-world conditions

4. How the India AI Summit is a milestone in India's longer-term systems build