# India Is Buying the Worlds Best AI Hardware. It Still Cant Keep Its Own Researchers.

- slug: india-is-buying-the-worlds-best-ai-hardware-it-still-cant-keep-its-own-researchers
- date: 2026-04-25
- category: Artificial Intelligence

India has the world highest AI skill rate, worst brain drain, and $1B in new compute infrastructure. IBM Research India director Amit Singhee on the one question the GPU numbers do not answer: who will run it.

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