DeepSeek signals Indian startups’ deep AI dive

The launch of the Chinese reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 has sparked a fierce war in the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ecosystem. The challenger is being challenged, and the world is waiting to see who emerges the winner in this battle of David versus Goliath.As the battle between OpenAI and DeepSeek escalates, some Indian start-ups have started integrating DeepSeek with offerings. But the tide turned within a few days as OpenAI released its much-anticipated model, o3-mini, its most cost-efficient reasoning model.

Largely prompted by the…