India is betting on the tradition of “frugal innovation” and its huge tech talent pool to catch up in the global artificial intelligence arms race, as it seeks a share of the fast-developing industry. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, start-up founders and policymakers believe the world’s most populous country can be competitive in AI by creating cheaper large language models trained on Indian languages and by building AI “applications” to solve specific problems.“If DeepSeek has been b...