The emergence of China’s DeepSeek, which is said to have been built at a small fraction of the cost compared to OpenAI’s GPT large language models (LLMs), has sparked excitement among India’s artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and engineers to build a home-grown LLM from scratch. Currently, India is entirely reliant on models such as OpenAI’s proprietary GPT or Meta’s Llama, an open-source model. Will India have its own AI model? Naandika Tripathi takes a look.
“If you don’t take risks, you don’t gain anything?" “How will you gauge your resilience if you don’t restart from zero?" “Aren’t these hot, red and spicy questions?" Ajay Singh, the chairman, and managing director of Spicejet, laughs as he asks Forbes India’s Rajiv Singh, also alluding to the tagline of his airline, SpiceJet, which he started in 2005. This interview with Singh, the founder of the airline that has survived multiple near-death moments and is now grappling with yet another existential crisis, is emotionally packed and gripping. Read here.
Boeing had come to Indian shores in search of the vast talent in the country, especially as the defence cooperation between India and the US has seen an improvement over the past few decades. Last year, the company inaugurated a global engineering and technology campus in Bengaluru, a state-of-the-art centre built with an investment of ₹1,600 crore and spread across 43 acres. In an interview with Forbes India, Salil Gupte, the president of Boeing India, talks about the American aircraft maker’s India GCC operations and how it has been tapping into the talent here to build aircraft for the world. Read more.
Mercedes’s tryst with the Indian shores began in 1994, when the Stuttgart-headquartered automaker brought its globally acclaimed W124 in 1994, importing it through a partnership with the Tata Group, and retailed it for around ₹20 lakh, a princely sum then. Now, as vehicles become more technology-enabled, the German automaker"s R&D arm in India has emerged as a crucial vertical for the company, says Manu Saale, the MD & CEO of Mercedes-Benz R&D India. “There is a little bit of India in every Mercedes vehicle across the world," he adds. Read more here.
As artificial intelligence (AI) opens new frontiers, conversations in Silicon Valley has shifted from GenerativeAI (GenAI) to Agentic AI. At the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum 2025, held on February 25 in Mumbai, the excitement around Agentic AI was palpable: CEOs, consultants, and strategists exchanged notes on how they can use the transformative power of this technology to drive efficiency and innovation for large-scale impact across industries. Neha Bothra sheds light on the application of Agentic AI in diverse sectors including health care, finance and manufacturing, the need for ‘experimentation’, and more.
First Published: Feb 28, 2025, 16:39
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