TL;DR
The IndiaAI Mission Chief has outlined a blueprint for India's "Sovereign AI" strategy, focusing on building indigenous compute infrastructure and datasets. This move aims to reduce reliance on global AI giants and tailor AI models to India's unique linguistic and demographic diversity.
Vichaarak Perspective
Sovereign AI is the new "Nuclear Option" for developing nations. While the West builds AI for productivity and the East builds it for surveillance, India is attempting to build AI for "Utility at Scale." The challenge is not just compute (GPUs); it's the "Dataset Moat." Can a government-led mission outpace the efficiency of private silicon? This is a bet that data sovereignty is more valuable than algorithmic speed. True independence in the 2020s is defined by who owns the weights of the models running your public services.