China released Deepseek AI and Silicon Valley is fretting about it. Where do India stand in this process?

We should be scared that our neighboring country is becoming an equal to USA. Deepseek is all in house made , from their engineers who didn't go abroad for education. While we are here spending ridiculous amount of money and time playing dirty politics, demolishing and rebuilding temples, giving plenty of resources to so called "spiritual gurus" , blissfully being ignorant about future of India...other countries have different vision. At least in 1960's , villages were self sustained and hardly depended on cities. Look where we are now as nation overall. Running backward at the fastest pace. We used to be on par with China and at times even better. Where do we stand now? Maybe good at biryani's and doing show offs at world popular weddings. ...Do our education department care at all? Do they have any vision for us?

Here is excerpt from Financial Times about Deepseek.
DeepSeek, founded by hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng, released its R1 model on Monday, explaining in a detailed paper how to build a large language model on a bootstrapped budget that can automatically learn and improve itself without human supervision. US companies including OpenAI and Google DeepMind pioneered developments in reasoning models, a relatively new field of AI research that is attempting to make models match human cognitive capabilities. In December, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released the full version of its o1 model but kept its methods secret.  DeepSeek’s R1 release sparked a frenzied debate in Silicon Valley about whether better resourced US AI companies, including Meta and Anthropic, can defend their technical edge.
In 2021, Liang started buying thousands of Nvidia graphic processing units for his AI side project while running his quant trading fund High-Flyer. Industry insiders viewed it as the eccentric actions of a billionaire looking for a new hobby.

Liang built an exceptional infrastructure team that really understands how the chips worked,” said one founder at a rival LLM company. “He took his best people with him from the hedge fund to DeepSeek.” Recommended Angela Zhang Chinese start-ups such as DeepSeek are challenging global AI giants After Washington banned Nvidia from exporting its most powerful chips to China, local AI companies have been forced to find innovative ways to maximise the computing power of a limited number of onshore chips — a problem Liang’s team already knew how to solve.

“DeepSeek’s offices feel like a university campus for serious researchers,” said the business partner. “The team believes in Liang’s vision: to show the world that the Chinese can be creative and build something from zero.”

Liang has styled DeepSeek as a uniquely “local” company, staffed with PhDs from top Chinese schools, Peking, Tsinghua and Beihang universities rather than experts from US institutions.

In an interview with the domestic press last year, he said his core team “did not have people who returned from overseas. They are all local . . . We have to develop the top talent ourselves”. DeepSeek’s identity as a purely Chinese LLM company has won it plaudits at home