New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) India’s large market, indigenous models such as BharatGen, Sarvam‑1, strong digital public infrastructure, deep talent pool and IndiaAI Mission makes the country the true epicentre of AI’s next chapter, a report said on Tuesday.The report from India Narrative said India’s remarkable strides in the AI domain makes it a powerhouse of innovation and a voice for equitable global AI governance.It highlighted that the country’s AI market is projected to grow at a 25–…
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New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India is set to take a major step in artificial intelligence with the launch of PARAM-2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual AI model, at the upcoming India AI Impact Summit 2026. Developed under the BharatGen programme, PARAM-2 represents India’s push to build its own sovereign foundational AI models designed specifically for the country’s languages, governance needs and cultural realities.BharatGen is India’s national generative AI initiative, supported by the De…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) India’s AI Governance Guidelines are anchored in seven ‘Sutras’ to ensure that AI serves as an enabler for inclusive development, economic growth, and global competitiveness, while effectively addressing risks to individuals and society through proportionate, evidence-based measures, according to an official explainer issued on Sunday.Through this structured and forward-looking architecture, India aims to realise the vision of “AI for All,” ensuring that the transf…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) India has fundamentally restructured its public health delivery by integrating AI into a unified strategy, that bridges specialist shortages and scales proactive care, an official statement said on Friday.By deploying AI-enabled tools within the National TB Elimination Programme, the National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme, and the Media Disease Surveillance System, the government has empowered non-specialists to perform high-level screenings, resulting in a 27…
New York, Feb 11 (IANS) India, which is hosting the International Artificial Intelligence Summit next week, ranks at the top in diffusion of AI skills and AI hiring in an international ranking of countries harnessing the power of AI. India comes second in economic competitiveness in the 2026 Global Vibrancy Index (GVI) produced by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred AI.Only the US has a better score in this category.Overall, in the GVI, India now ranks behind only the United Stat…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) As India gets prepared to host the mega ‘AI Impact Summit 2026’, the country’s approach to the democratisation of AI shows that scale, inclusion and innovation can progress together, an official statement said on Tuesday.The focus on affordability, openness and trust ensures that benefits of AI reach farmers, students, researchers, startups and public institutions alike.“The path ahead is clear. Democratising AI is not a one-time effort but a continuing commitmen…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Homegrown Yotta Data Services on Monday announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation on Yotta’s Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud.With this development, BHASHINI now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, models, and citizen interactions remain within India’s jurisdiction.The deployment demonstrates how national digital public goods can be migrated f…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The upcoming India AI Impact Summit will unite nations, innovators, and citizens to develop an inclusive and responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), said Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission.The AI Impact Summit is scheduled to be held in Delhi from February 19 to 20. Speaking at the latest episode of Digital India – Ask Our Experts, Singh highlighted how the Summit will act as a people-centric platform, moving beyond technical discussions to focus on how citizens can…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha highlighted the critical bottleneck hindering India’s ambitions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, stressing that the primary constraint is not funding, capital, or talent but the availability of computational resources, particularly Graphics Processing Units or GPUs.Chadha pointed out that rising GPU costs and global supply chain disruptions are severely limiting India’s data centre expansion and efforts to tr…
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Industry leaders on Sunday welcomed the Union Budget 2026–27 for its emphasis on skilling, innovation, Electronics Component and Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) and semiconductors, adding that it will make India a global electronics manufacturing hub.Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises called the Budget “bold” for combining growth with inclusion. The strong emphasis on skilling, alongside sustained investments in science, innovation, and research a…