Attended the India AI Impact Summit last week.
It was a first time event, so yes there were hiccups… a lot of it. But none of that matters.
What matters is that the room was packed.
People flew in from everywhere.
And that energy alone told us something.
Everyone's talking about India as a big market for AI and sure, the numbers are real.
But I think we're underselling ourselves.
The next phase of AI won't be built on English. It can't be. And India, with the sheer depth of languages, music styles, cultural context we carry, is sitting on something most people haven't fully clocked yet.
You can't train a model to understand human expression and ignore a country that has 1000 music traditions and dozens of living languages that sound nothing like each other. That's not a consumer advantage, that's a builder's advantage.
Good to see the government starting to see this too.
I want us to stop thinking about how we consume AI and start thinking about how we shape what it becomes. That's the conversation I want to be having in five years, not "which AI product are Indians using" but "which AI was built because of India."
That future is closer than people think.
Also got to share a panel on India's Creator Revolution with some brilliant people - Gail Kent,
@Shakunbatra, Pierre Caessa, Bhavya Doshi, Supriya Paul, and Deepesh Kothari.
Had an insightful conversation with them on the future of Indian creator economy with AI.