India, Nov. 12 -- Local languages and accessibility are important when it comes to frontier language models, Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, said at a virtual session of the 24th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Thursday.

"I saw a lot of startups-and not necessarily only in the language model space," she said, pointing to space, batteries and similar hard engineering as India's competitive strength in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). "That is also the real strength that we should not lose track of," she added.

A distinguished alumna of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, she added that it's important to think in a broader way and have...