At the Business Today AI Summit 2025, IBM India & South Asia MD Sandip Patel, in conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Group Editor, Business Today, said India can simultaneously scale as a major AI services hub and also build product-led innovation. He highlighted the growing relevance of small language models (SLMs)—affordable, open-source, and better suited for mass adoption—underscoring IBM’s belief that competition won’t be in foundation models alone, but in democratizing them. Patel cited Bh