India is testing an alternative to Silicon Valley’s AI playbook

India is hosting a hackathon challenging Silicon Valley's approach to AI. The event invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools—pushing back against the idea that innovation belongs only to a handful of Western companies. According to Rest of World, the initiative reflects a growing movement to democratize AI development globally, showing that breakthroughs can happen anywhere, in any language, without constant internet connectivity.

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