"The vulnerability has two layers. The first is model access: a startup, a company, a government dept that has built on foreign infrastructure has no lever to pull when access is restricted. The second is computing. India does not manufacture advanced GPUs. Resolving that is generational work... Frugality, designing models to be efficient and operable on Indian infrastructure is not a compromise. It is a design philosopyy...{Times of India, August 16, 2026).