India wants its own AI. Here’s why ft. Abhay Tandon
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Sarvam AI. Gnani.AI. BharatGen. You’ve probably seen these names all over your feed this week. But here’s what most people are still trying to understand, what does “sovereign AI” actually mean? 🤔 It means building, hosting, and controlling your own AI within your own borders. Not renting intelligence from the US or China. Not outsourcing the brain. And this isn’t just tech jargon. It’s about national security, when Aadhaar, health records, and defense data are involved, jurisdiction matters. It’s about economic power, AI could add $1.7 trillion to India’s economy by 2035, but only if we own the full stack. It’s about trust and compliance, AI that follows Indian laws, Indian privacy norms, Indian accountability. And it’s about language, 22 official languages that global models don’…