China’s DeepSeek moment has triggered unease for the Indian government and tech industry.
Earlier this month, India’s commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, rebuked the country’s entrepreneurs for their lack of innovation. “We are focused on food delivery apps, turning unemployed youth into cheap labor so that the rich can get their meals without moving out of their house. And against that, what does a Chinese startup do? Work on developing electric mobility battery technologies, and with that, they today dominate the electric mobility ecosystem,” Goyal said at an industry event.
