Bengaluru, July 2 -- Former Infosys CFO and Aarin Capital Chairman Mohandas Pai on Thursday said India should focus on deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems and improve productivity rather than chasing the expensive race to build frontier large language models (LLMs), arguing that the country's current constraints in capital and computing infrastructure make practical AI adoption the more sensible priority.
Speaking at the launch of ToneTag's voice-first merchant banking platform eKosha, Pai said public discourse on AI had become overly focused on whether India was building LLMs, without recognising the enormous investments and infrastructure such efforts require.
"We see so many criticisms in this country by...