Not in AGI race, sovereignty is our aim: IndiaAI CEO

As countries compete to build ever larger Al models, India is choosing a different path.

- Sejal Sharma

“We are not...into the race for artificial general intelligence (AGI),” said Abhishek Singh, CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, in an interview with HT, laying out a pragmatic vision for the country’s AI strategy ahead of the AI Impact Summit.

Globally, all major Al labs like OpenAl, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta Al (FAIR), Microsoft AI, and xAI are racing to build increasingly powerful systems, pouring billions into larger models and computing infrastructure in pursuit of AGI — hypothetical AI systems capable of performing any intellectual task a human can, rather than being limited to specific functions. Instead of chasing trillion-parameter models or headline-grabbing breakthroughs, Singh said India's priority is simpler: to build systems that work at a population scale.