A vision for sovereign AI: Building India’s self-reliant AI future

The global AI race is heating up, and nations are vying to build self-reliant ecosystems that ensure strategic independence. For India, the stakes are immense. As Prime Minister Modi explained in his conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in 2023, “exporting flour to import bread” is no longer sustainable. His analogy highlights the urgent need for India to control its entire AI value chain—transforming raw data into intelligence within our borders.

Why should we export raw data only to import intelligence? India must focus on building…