DeepSeek's 2025 success energized Indian AI builders, including CognitiveLab founder Adithya Kolavi, who saw it as evidence that strong models could be built with fewer resources.

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"DeepSeek’s 2025 success energized Indian AI builders, including CognitiveLab founder Adithya Kolavi, who saw it as evidence that strong models could be built with fewer resources."

MIT Technology Review reports DeepSeek as a catalyst for Indian builders and quotes Kolavi's 'why not us' reaction, supporting the narrower influence claim rather than national-policy causation.

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Source title Inside India’s scramble for AI independence

Source authors Shadma Shaikh

Source year 2025

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