India's AI strategy should be to create a data infrastructure

Hardly a week passes without yet another story about the Artificial Intelligence race between China and the US. China has allocated massive funding to AI to enable new capabilities in transportation, surveillance and weapons. China is "all in" on AI, with Chinese private funding in AI in the last decade growing seven-fold faster than US funding. India has largely ignored AI. No Indian university or think-tank figures as a serious AI research entity measured by citations or other measures of innovation such as victories in prestigious AI contests, where algorithms compete on standard problems.