Roots · तकनीक Technology and AI
Own the core. Win on use.
India did not invent the internet and still built the world’s largest real-time payment system on it. AI is the same test at a larger scale: build what we must own, apply what the world builds better than anyone and make sure 1.4 billion people come out ahead.
Three positions, stated plainly.
Build sovereign models and sovereign compute.
A country that rents all of its intelligence will one day be told what it may think. The IndiaAI Mission funds twelve foundation model projects and puts over 38,000 GPUs on a shared portal.
Lead on use, the way we did with UPI.
Build on the best models in the world and apply them across 1.4 billion people faster than anyone. UPI went from 1.78 crore transactions to over 24,000 crore a year in a decade.
Make AI add jobs in India, not take them.
Reskill at the scale of the workforce. NITI Aayog warns up to 1.5 million tech jobs are at risk by 2031 without action and up to 4 million AI jobs are possible with it.
India’s AI in eight numbers.
- ₹10,372 cr IndiaAI Mission: Approved in 2024.
- 38,000+ GPUs on the national compute portal: 20,000 more planned.
- 12 Foundation model projects funded: From Sarvam to BharatGen.
- 24.07 bn UPI transactions, Sep 2026: 802 million a day.
- ~22 m Indian developers on GitHub: On course to pass the US by 2030.
- 1.8 GW Data centre capacity: 7 GW and more planned by 2030.
- $250 bn+ Infrastructure pledged at the AI Impact Summit: New Delhi, Feb 2026.
- 59.5 lakh People in Indian tech: Adding only 2.3% in 2025-26.
Sources: PIB, Feb 2026; MediaNama, Apr 2026; NPCI via StartupTalky, Oct 2026; The Register, Oct 2025; Savills, Jul 2026; Business Today, Feb 2026; NASSCOM via ETV Bharat, Feb 2026.