DeepSeek to Offer Low-Cost AI Model for Small Firms: NASSCOM

Chennai: IT industry body NASSCOM finds that the emergence of DeepSeek, the open source AI model will help Indian industry build upon it and create its own unique space at a global level in a cost-effective manner. As far as data and privacy is concerned, NASSCOM finds that these are early days.

“DeepSeek has demonstrated that it is possible to bring out large open source AI at low-cost. The cost of enterprise AI models built by the deep-tech companies in the US and the West has been questioned by DeepSeek and it has removed a barrier for smaller firms which work upon the functional models. This can inspire the creation of several other models as well,” said Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice president, NASSCOM.

As far as Indian firms working in the AI space are concerned, they can build upon the model and find their own unique space. For Indian IT companies which have been servicing global customers, this provides an opportunity to partner with DeepSeek and other such solutions.

“The issues of data and privacy as well as copyright are pertinent to US enterprise models as well. Further, these are still early days to comment on data and privacy,” she said. According to Sonal Arora, Country Manager, GI Group Holding, the country will have to upgrade its talent pool to stay ahead in the race of new technologies. “In the past couple of years, we have seen that entry level hiring in the traditional IT services has significantly reduced. Hiring has been mainly happening for deep tech jobs. We have to prepare our talent pool to meet the needs of the future. The government also has to recognize that we need structural policies in place to continue to be an IT leader,” she said.