India to launch its own AI Model by February, confirms MeitY Secretary

India's sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) model is scheduled to be ready before the AI Impact Summit in February 2026, a top IT ministry official announced on Friday. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress 2025, Electronics and IT Secretary S. Krishnan made the timeline public. He indicated that while India was a late entrant to the AI space, the country has rapidly scaled up its compute infrastructure.

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