India, April 29 -- From Perplexity cofounder Aravind Srinivas and Anthropic CTO Rahul Patil to big tech giants such as Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Indian brains are driving deeptech and AI businesses in the West.  

But, India ironically lags behind countries like the US and China in terms of the number of homegrown deeptech companies. Enter Bharat1.ai, a startup trying to bridge this gap.

Founded earlier this year by Subhashish Banerjee, Umakant Soni, and Sireesh Kupendra, the company has set up an AI city in Bengaluru. In its first phase, the company has developed an AI Superpark for startups, academic institutions like IITs and BITS, and large enterprises such as banks.

The founders describe Bharat...