Monday, 28 September

Monday, 28 September, 2026

a16z’s Raghu Raghuram Says It’s Too Early to Write India Off in the Global AI Race

By TechShots Studio
a16z’s Raghu Raghuram Says It’s Too Early to Write India Off in the Global AI Race
Andreessen Horowitz managing partner Raghu Raghuram says India has the talent to eventually build major AI companies despite limited frontier-model development and computing capacity today. He believes Indian startups can first build services using open-weight models and gradually move toward developing their own models as compute becomes more accessible. He also highlights rapidly growing demand for AI computing infrastructure.

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