WHILE HE called for global collaboration to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) for economic growth, social transformation and sustainable development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday emphasised the need to build quality data sets that are “free from biases” and embrace open-source models. He also carried a rather hopeful message on the potential impact of AI on jobs. Modi’s call to embrace the open source architecture comes at a time when China’s low-cost open source DeepSeek model has shaken up the AI industry, drawing comparisons with its heavy-pocketed Western counterparts like OpenAI and Google. Unlike DeepSeek, both the American models are...