India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality

# India's AI Startup Hits Reality Check, Pivots to Easier Business An Indian AI company called Krutrim that was hyped as a breakthrough success story is shifting away from building its own AI models—a costly and difficult endeavor—toward selling cloud computing services instead. The move comes after the company laid off staff and struggled to deliver meaningful updates, suggesting that creating competitive AI technology is much harder and more expensive than investors initially hoped. This reveals a broader challenge: building world-class AI requires enormous resources that most companies outside the U.S. and China simply don't have.