When TIME named “The Architects of AI” its 2025 Person of the Year, it was acknowledging that reality. The age of solitary inventors had given way to an era shaped by individuals who operate at the junctions of technology, politics, and society. Among them were two Indian-origin figures whose work captures how the AI race is now being fought on very different fronts. Karandeep Anand and Sriram Krishnan do not share the same mandate, but together they illustrate how artificial intelligence is becoming both deeply intimate and profoundly geopolitical.
