Building AI for Bharat

In terms of scale and impact, what could offer a greater opportunity than agriculture in our country to showcase and use the power of AI?

- RAMEESH KAILASAM

INDIA HAS BEEN making steady progress in its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, with a democratized approach through "AI for All" that encompasses a supportive policy.

The efforts of the government like the IndiaAI Mission, IndiaAI Compute, IndiaAI FutureSkills, IndiaAI Startup Financing, IndiaAI Innovation Centre, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, and IndiaAI Applications Development Initiative are focused in the right direction.

Complementing this are efforts from the start-up ecosystem with the likes of Krutrim and Sarvam AI that are aiming in the direction of large language models (LLMs).

Krutrim developed its own foundational LLM trained on a vast data set of Indian languages and contextual data, enabling accurate text generation and conversational AI in various Indian languages.

They recently launched "Kruti", an agentic AI assistant.

Sarvam AI is focused on making generative AI for Bharat and aims to build the "full-stack" for generative AI.

They also launched models like Sarvam-M.

For the first time, India is developing a foundational AI model that will be run entirely on domestic infrastructure—a significant leap towards Atmanirbhar Bharat.

And importantly, it will enable the country to develop strategic autonomy in one of the most critical emerging technologies of our time.

While India grows in its AI journey there are emerging market access challenges that could impact the pace and scale, due to geopolitics and issues that may occur in future like US export controls.