India Not Lagging Behind US, China in AI, Say IT Minister and IBM CEO at Davos

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:59pm on 20 Jan 2026,Tuesday Tech Today

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw rejected claims that India is behind the US and China in AI. Speaking at Davos, Krishna said criticism of India lacking innovation is “not fair”. He said value in AI will shift to applications, not large models. Krishna added that trillion-parameter models will become cheap and common. Vaishnaw said India is building smaller, sector-based AI models using sovereign data. He said such models have already shown strong results in defence use cases. (PC: NDTV)

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