Mint Explainer: Does US-OpenAI deal signal trouble for Indian startups?

What does this mean for the Indian AI ecosystem?

Many of the world’s top fundamental AI labs have emerged in the US, including OpenAI, Anthropic, voice-first company ElevenLabs, as well as xAI, Meta AI, and Google’s DeepMind. Non-US companies include France-based Mistral, China’s DeepSeek and Sarvam’s Indian-dominated models, BharatGen and Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim.