{"id":993603,"date":"2026-02-18T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993603"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:20:12","slug":"india-eyes-217-billion-ai-push-plans-sovereign-models-for-strategic-needs-it-minister-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/india-eyes-217-billion-ai-push-plans-sovereign-models-for-strategic-needs-it-minister-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"India eyes $217 billion AI push, plans sovereign models for strategic needs: IT minister Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India on Tuesday said it wants to develop sovereign AI models to meet \u201cstrategic requirements\u201d and weave in contextual nuances of the country as it plans to have localized tech solutions and IPs to counter the dominance of large language models (LLMs) broadly coming in from America and China.<\/p>\n<p>As American LLMs such as Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini and those from Anthropic and Perplexity gain ground across the world with Chinese DeepSeek and Qwen also expanding, the govt is keen to have India-specific models that are customized to the country\u2019s needs, languages, cultural nuances, and industry requirements, IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at the India AI Impact summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Tuesday said it wants to develop sovereign AI models to meet \u201cstrategic requirements\u201d and weave in contextual nuances of the country as it plans to have localized tech solutions and IPs to counter the dominance of large language models (LLMs) broadly coming in from America and China. As American LLMs such as Open AI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini and those from Anthropic and Perplexity gain ground across the world with Chinese DeepSeek and Qwen also expanding, the govt is keen to have India-specific models that are customized to the country\u2019s needs, languages, cultural nuances, and industry requirements, IT and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}