S14 Ep5: Why India Is Winning The AI Race Nobody Is Watching | Tushar Kansal
From Influential Visions by Nat Schooler - Business Futurist
May 28, 2026 · 30 min · Season 14 · Episode 5
About this episode
Tushar Kansal discusses India's significant yet overlooked advancements in AI and its implications.
The world's biggest AI conversation is happening without India in the room. That is a mistake. One in eight of ChatGPT's weekly users sits in India. Eighty per cent of Indian professionals use AI at work — against fifty per cent in the US. And the country is quietly building its own sovereign language models, frugal AI tools, and healthcare diagnostics at a scale the West has not begun to absorb. Tushar Kansal — founder of Kansaltancy Ventures, VC strategist to 1,700-plus international investors — joins Nat Schooler to cover what India is actually building, what happened at the Delhi AI Summit that nobody is talking about, and why ancient Indian philosophy understands something about intelligent machines that Silicon Valley has missed completely. "AI can give you the right answer. But it cannot give you the right intention." Read the full piece: https://www.natschooler.com/why-india-is-winning-the-ai-race-nobody-is-watching/ More from Nat: https://www.natschooler.com Monday Influencer®: https://mondayinfluencer.com Tools: https://www.natschooler.com/tools
People in this episode
Host: Nat Schooler
Guest: Tushar Kansal
Topics covered
- AI development in India
- Indian professionals and AI
- Sovereign language models
- Healthcare diagnostics
- Ancient Indian philosophy and technology
Keywords
- AI race
- India
- ChatGPT
- language models
- healthcare AI
- Delhi AI Summit
- intelligent machines
- ancient philosophy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Kansaltancy Ventures
Places: India, US
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