🤖 New SummitUp episode!

Unlike cloud adoption, which took as many as ten years, enterprises are rapidly deploying AI - even traditionally conservative sectors like financial services and healthcare are moving from pilots to production at unprecedented speed.

And India’s AI moment is here.

This time, we’re not playing catch-up. In this episode, Krishna Mehra (AI Partner) and Poorvi Vijay (Vice President) join Vishy V (Head of Marketing) to unpack Elevation's thesis on the massive AI opportunity for Indian founders. The conversation explores three key themes where we see immense potential:

1. Infrastructure & Middleware: Building the essential tools that connect models to enterprise data and enable AI adoption at scale
2. Vertical AI: Reimagining entire industry workflows by combining domain expertise with AI capabilities
3. Services + Product Play: A unique India advantage in delivering end-to-end AI transformation for enterprises globally

From commoditization of base models creating new opportunities and India emerging as a major AI market to the rapid enterprise adoption - Krishna and Poorvi break down the key trends shaping this space and share their advice on how founders looking to build in AI can stand out.
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Chapters:

00:00 - Coming Up
01:20 - Introduction
01:38 - DeepSeek & Model Evolution
03:34 - Building Differentiated LLMs
05:02 - Moats for App Developers
05:32 - How to Disrupt in AI
07:38 - Exciting Themes
08:00 - Infrastructure and Middleware
11:12 - Vertical AI
13:40 - Services + Product Play
16:46 - Compute Infrastructure
18:27 - Enterprise AI Adoption
21:39 Advice for AI founders in AI
25:08 Closing Thoughts