--- title: Inside India’s scramble for AI independence | daily.dev description: India is rapidly mobilizing to develop sovereign AI capabilities after being inspired by DeepSeek's success. The government launched the IndiaAI Mission with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-india-s-scramble-for-ai-independence-urdqefzek twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Inside India’s scramble for AI independence | daily.dev og:description: India is rapidly mobilizing to develop sovereign AI capabilities after being inspired by DeepSeek's success. The government launched the IndiaAI Mission with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/inside-india-s-scramble-for-ai-independence-urdqefzek og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uRdqefZEK.png og:image:alt: Inside India’s scramble for AI independence og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inside India’s scramble for AI independence **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary India is rapidly mobilizing to develop sovereign AI capabilities after being inspired by DeepSeek's success. The government launched the IndiaAI Mission with $1.25 billion in funding and allocated nearly 19,000 GPUs to support domestic foundation model development. Key challenges include India's linguistic diversity with 22 official languages, limited high-quality training data in Indian languages, and historically low R&D investment at 0.65% of GDP. Startups like Sarvam AI are building multilingual models optimized for Indian languages, while the government selected Sarvam to develop a 70-billion-parameter sovereign model. The initiative represents a shift from India's traditional services-focused tech industry toward deep tech innovation, though debates continue about whether publicly funded models should be open-source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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