Can India build its own ChatGPT? Hanooman.ai, Microsoft & CoRoverAI take the stage at ET Soonicorns Summit 2025

The global artificial intelligence (AI) race just got more intense, and India wants a seat at the top table. The question today isn’t whether India should compete; it’s whether it can win and how. The timing couldn’t be more critical.

This harks back to the beginning of the year when IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that India would launch its first indigenous AI foundational model tailored to the country’s unique cultural and linguistic landscape. That same month, by the end of January 2025, DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT to become the…