Indian companies look to Chinese LLMs as AI costs bite

AI News July 13, 2026 09:31 AM

BENGALURU -- Indian companies are increasingly leaning on Chinese large language models (LLMs) developed by DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI to contain their artificial intelligence spends, extending India's reliance on China for cutting-edge technologies despite a long history of standoffs between the neighbors.

Indian companies look to Chinese LLMs as AI costs bite

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