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India needs to upgrade its legislative and legal framework to deal with the impacts of AI technology

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INDIA'S ENTRY to the artificial intelligence (AI) race is quite delayed. On January 30, 2025, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) invited proposal from startups and researchers for collaboration to build India's own state-of-the-art foundational AI models, including Large Language Models (capable of understanding and generating human language by processing vast amounts of text data) trained on Indian datasets. As per a March 19, 2025, press release from the ministry, 67 proposals have been received till February 15, 2025.

In March 2025, the government launched IndiaAI Dataset Platform to provide developers access to high-quality, non-personal data, reducing “barrier to innovation”. It also launched AI Compute Portal to create infrastructure for building such models. The portal will initially provide 10,000 semiconductor chips, with 8,693 more to be added, at a highly subsidised rate.

These developments follow Union Cabinet's approval of India's ₹10,372 crore AI Mission in 2024, centred around seven verticals—computing infrastructure capacity, skilling, innovation, datasets, startup financing, application development, and safe and trusted AI—to catalyse growth of AI ecosystem across the nation.

India's policy responses to AI are geared towards the market. They have ranged from providing public infrastructure to enable market-led AI production, to nationalising datasets to enable Big Data analysis through AI, reads a 2024 paper in Communications Research and Practice