At India’s AI summit last week, controversy erupted briefly when a private university official described a Chinese-made robot dog as homegrown. But experts say the episode should not obscure India’s expanding AI deployment, although it underscores the persistent concerns that India trails China in investment and research. Yet the scale of India’s ambitions is underscored by the size of the gap with the US and China. IIT Gandhinagar faculty, for instance, can guide teachers on the choice of large language models for specific tasks. The robot-dog episode briefly punctuated a summit that, analysts say, was focused on AI expansion.

Source: The Telegraph February 23, 2026 01:01 UTC