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a tremendously powerful In a world where AI debates
national multiplier for inclusive, are often fixated on power
sustainable growth. concentration and geopolitical
And we are backing this rivalry, India offers an alternative:
vision with institutional and democratic values and
technological enablers. advanced technology are not
At the India AI Impact Summit contradictory, they reinforce
2026, key indigenous foundation each other. Inclusion accelerates
models were launched —
innovation rather than limiting
including Sarvam AI’s 30B
it. When Trust is foundational
and 105B parameter models,
infrastructure, and not an add-
optimised for multilingual,
on, it drives population level scale
real-time applications, and
and impact.
BharatGen’s Param2, a 17B
Thousands of years ago,
multilingual Mixture-of-Experts
Indian traditions asked: What is
model spanning over 22 Indian
knowledge for? Who should it
languages with multimodal
serve? In the age of algorithms,
capability.
India answers anew. Through
These sovereign systems
the M.A.N.A.V. Vision and the
are not about symbolism, but
democratisation of intelligence,
they are critical for us to ensure
AI will cease to be the privilege
that intelligence is culturally
attuned, linguistically inclusive, of a few—it will become the
and strategically autonomous. empowerment of many.
They create blueprints not only By leading this effort, India
for India, but for other nations advances not only toward
across the Global South seeking Viksit Bharat but toward a more
population-scale AI that aligns human, inclusive future for the
with democratic values. world.
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