India has a lot of languages and people need access to something than allows them to do basic stuff with it. I don't think relying on the US is a long term solution.

An example. I am into proofreading and language learning and am forced to rely on Claude/Gemini to extract text from old books because of the lack of good Indian models. I started with regular Tesseract, but its accuracy outside of the Latin alphabet is not that great. Qwen 3/3.5 is good with the Bombay style of Devanagari but craps the bed with the Calcutta style. And neither are great with languages like Bengali. In contrast, Claude can extract Bengali text from terrible scans and old printing with something like 99+ percent accuracy.

Models specifically targeted at Indian languages and content will perform better within that context, I feel.