Someone writing small cheques into American AI labs, doing PR tours about how they “backed the future” probably shouldn’t be the loudest voice lecturing everyone on what India must do after the Fable news.
For those of us actually building models from scratch across modalities, the bottlenecks are not a breaking headline or a geopolitical event. We live them every day, data, compute, talent, inference, distribution, and relentless execution.
You don’t wake up one morning, see a model get pulled down internationally, and suddenly discover the importance of sovereign AI.
At
@rumik_ai we’ve always believed in owning our stack and building foundational capabilities ourselves. Soon, we’ll be open-sourcing India’s first expressive TTS model with deep code-switching support across Hindi, Hinglish, and multiple Devanagari languages. Not because it’s fashionable, but because we genuinely believe India can build world-class AI infrastructure and models.
What the ecosystem needs isn’t more hindsight experts chasing engagement after every headline. It needs patient builders, conviction, long-term capital, and VCs who help create enduring AI companies instead of pretending to be the smartest AI researchers on Twitter.
India doesn’t have a talent problem. It has a conviction problem.
Looking for a team of 10-12 cracked researchers & engineers to build a new AI Lab in India.
Funding and compute secured.
DMs open.