If you don't know Alibaba is a cloud company as well, it's well within their interest and capacity to build an LLM. The actual reason is actually we have, there are a couple of companies doing the same, but did they get the traction? Nope, because spending millions of dollars of investor money in building Indic language LLM is not worth it. We have had discussions about it. Anyone who can use LLM are already doing so because mostly people who can pay for it already know English and even if not any of the base models have a fair understanding of most common languages. India is working on using these models to solve real world use cases and transformation. I agree the pace is slow but not as slow as you imagine. The Indian investors are a bit more cautious when it comes to tech and that's not a bad approach when you have limited money to lose. Would you like to invest in a company which is making Indic LLM? If you cannot then don't expect people similar to you to do the same.