Can India Leverage Talent to Catch Up in the AI Race?

India faces a critical question: should it invest in building its own, frontier AI models despite shortfalls in chips, infrastructure and funding? In the first episode of Bloomberg's Emerging podcast, Menaka Doshi dives into whether sovereignty, security, and long term competitiveness justify the push. She sits down in Mumbai with Srikanth Velamakanni, co founder of Fractal Analytics, India's first publicly listed pure-play AI company, and Ganesh Ramakrishnan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and a member of India's BharatGen AI taskforce.