“India isn’t just a refuge from AI hype”, says Anand Mahindra despite advanced chip limitations

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The Deccan Chronicle piece notes that specific‑purpose machines such as World War II code‑breakers were not programmable for general tasks, whereas modern computers are flexible because software can be targeted to specific tasks; it also remarks that women were ace programmers during the war while men dominated hardware. Beyond this historical context, the excerpt does not provide details on why India’s sovereign AI would need global collaborations, so those reasons cannot be established from the given material.

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