CHENNAI, India — India, a country blessed with a strong high-tech industry, is applying its brains not just to commercial artificial intelligence (AI) but also to its military, as its neighbor and regional rival China continues to pour billions into AI research.A 2023 report by an Indian think tank, the Delhi Policy Group, said India spends around $50 million a year on AI. The report noted that while India's spending was a "good initial step," it was "clearly inadequate compared to our primary strategic challenger, China, which is spending more than 30 times this amount. If we are not to