Ashwini Vaishnaw pushes back after IMF Chief calls India 'second-tier AI power'
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January 22, 2026 • 12:30 PM
Ashwini Vaishnaw pushes back after IMF Chief calls India 'second-tier AI power'
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw fired back after IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva called India a second-tier Al power. He said the classification is incorrect and added that Stanford has ranked India 3rd in terms of Al preparedness.
"ROI doesn't come from creating a very large model...95% of the work can happen with models which are 20-50 billion parameters," he said.
