US Stargate: India needs to act fast on AI autonomy

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the $500-billion Stargate project to build AI infrastructure in the country is being viewed by experts as a wake-up call for India to urgently advance its efforts toward achieving self-reliance in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector.

Few policy experts see the move by the US as a way to weaponise technology by starting to control everything, from large language models (LLMs), which are owned by US companies, and infrastructure around the same.