India’s AI Sovereignty: Why Indigenous AI Models Are a Strategic Imperative

Artificial intelligence has emerged as the defining technology of the twenty-first century, reshaping economies, military capabilities and global power equations. Nations are no longer competing merely to adopt AI; they are striving to control the infrastructure, data and models that underpin it. In this new technological contest, India’s aspiration to become a global AI leader cannot depend exclusively on foreign platforms. Building indigenous AI models is no longer simply a technological ambition—it is a strategic imperative.