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

India's first GenAI unicorn Krutrim pivots from AI model development to cloud services following layoffs and slowed product updates, signaling the economic challenges of building proprietary AI models in capital-constrained markets.

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