{"id":994137,"date":"2026-02-21T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994137"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:24:18","slug":"india-must-develop-sovereign-ai-to-avoid-digital-colony-risk-says-sarvam-ai-co-founder-vivek-raghavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/21\/india-must-develop-sovereign-ai-to-avoid-digital-colony-risk-says-sarvam-ai-co-founder-vivek-raghavan\/","title":{"rendered":"India must develop sovereign AI to avoid digital colony risk, says Sarvam AI Co-founder Vivek Raghavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): Building foundational AI technology is a necessity rather than an option for India to maintain its digital independence, said Sarvam co-founder, Vivek Raghavan. He noted that AI impacts every aspect of human life, making it a core technology that the country must understand at a fundamental level. &#8220;Otherwise, we will become a digital colony which is dependent on other countries for this core, core technology,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the India AI Summit 2026, Vivek Raghavan stated that the development of indigenous technology remains a critical priority for national interests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): Building foundational AI technology is a necessity rather than an option for India to maintain its digital independence, said Sarvam co-founder, Vivek Raghavan. He noted that AI impacts every aspect of human life, making it a core technology that the country must understand at a fundamental level. &#8220;Otherwise, we will become a digital colony which is dependent on other countries for this core, core technology,&#8221; he noted. Speaking at the India AI Summit 2026, Vivek Raghavan stated that the development of indigenous technology remains a critical priority for national interests.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994137","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=994137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}