India, Aug. 26 -- Is enterprise LLM adoption in India going the SaaS way? Not even a decade ago, SaaS majors realised that India's fragmented adoptive base for software products required dedicated vertical solutions. The same reality is now dawning on the AI ecosystem.

Vertical models like Razorpay's Vulcan, Fractal's healthcare reasoning models - as well as the establishment of its Indian business unit - and BharatGen's domain-specific models for agriculture and the legal domain all point to a new direction.

Earlier this year, Tech Mahindra unveiled an 8 Bn parameter Hindi-first LLM focused on education use cases, and designed for adaptive tutoring, particularly to address the structural English bias embedded in many global AI systems....