AI models developed under IndiaAI Mission represent important progress in building India’s own AI capabilities tailored to local languages and use-cases

• IndiaAI Mission is a ₹10,371.92 crore, 5-year national programme (approved 7 March 2024) under MeitY to build a sovereign AI ecosystem covering compute, models, datasets, skills, startups, applications and Safe & Trusted AI.
• Recent traction: sovereign foundation models (Sarvam AI, BharatGen, Gnani) unveiled at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026, hosted on the AIKosha datasets/model platform.
• Highly examinable: ministry, pillars, GPU numbers, Cabinet date, IAIC, AIKosha, iGOT.