For decades, India’s tech story has been defined by IT services. But on Young Turks Reloaded, Co-founder & CEO of QNu Labs Sunil Gupta & Founder & CEO of QpiAI Nagendra Nagaraja tell Shereen Bhan the next chapter will be written in qubits, not code. QpiAI has built India’s most powerful 25-qubit quantum computer. It is now setting up the country’s first quantum fabrication foundry in Bengaluru & a Quantum Supremacy Centre to solve real-world challenges like weather forecasting & agriculture productivity. If QpiAI is building machines, QNu Labs is ensuring they don't get hacked. Gupta envisions a ‘Quantum Dome’ for India, which will serve as a nationwide shield of quantum encryption to protect defence, cloud, satellites, drones, even everyday Wi-Fi. In quantum communication, India already leads most nations, except China, but in computing, competition is tougher. Yet, Nagaraja believes India’s creativity & innovation can bridge the gap. Both warn that the geopolitics of quantum could be more fraught than AI, with export restrictions &, what Gupta calls, a looming “quantum war”.Their core message remains that India must shift from services to products. “In services, you solve someone else’s problem. In products, you solve your own big problems and scale globally,” says Gupta. But technology alone won’t cut it. Nagaraja cautions, “The I.T. era is over. Without a quantum-literate workforce, we’ll miss the wave.”