In the weeks before a landmark $60 billion acquisition by SpaceX, AI coding startup Cursor has chosen India as the proving ground for a new philosophy of access — offering a localized subscription at roughly a third of its standard price to a developer community that has tripled in size within a year. The move reflects a broader reckoning in the global AI industry: that the next wave of growth will not come from saturating wealthy markets, but from meeting vast, underserved talent pools on their own economic terms. India, with 27 million GitHub developers and accelerating momentum, is not a co