Keynote: Building India’s Sovereign AI Stack w/ Local Talent & Open Global Collab
summary
India builds a DPI-style AI stack that actually ships resources and models: 38,000 GPUs at ~70% discount for startups and researchers, a curated data portal AI kosh: 22 languages, 7,000+ datasets, 300 local models, small tuned models like Baragen 3B model with 25% Indic data and OCR models that outperform GPT/Gemini on Indian documents, and shared services such as bashidi real‑time translation across 22 languages. Metrics: 21.9M developers (31% growth) and ~39–40% AI skill penetration.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00India's AI sovereignty vision
- 1:32Digital public infrastructure
- 4:00Sovereign AI strategy
- 6:49Compute access as public good
- 8:14AI Kosh platform
- 9:58Local AI models for Indic languages
- 12:10AI in agriculture & healthcare
- 13:55Bhashini real-time translation
- 14:38Open source collaboration
- 16:02Sovereignty through AI choice
- 17:48From users to contributors
- 18:51India's AI engineering talent
- 20:37India's global AI impact
- 21:44Call to action
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