I’ve been watching the AI arms race unfold with a mixture of fascination and dread for a while now. Every week brings another announcement about some massive AI model that’s supposedly going to change everything, backed by billions in funding and wild promises about achieving artificial general intelligence. It’s exhausting, frankly. So when I came across India’s latest budget announcement committing $90 billion to AI infrastructure, I expected more of the same – another country trying to build their own GPT-killer and join the race to the bottom.