• Manufacturing and industrials could offer India's biggest artificial intelligence opportunity, venture investor Piyush Kharbanda argues.
• Execution, rather than technology, may provide the key competitive advantage for AI startups.
• Indian AI companies remain behind US peers as the traditional software-as-a-service playbook faces disruption.

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