Artificial intelligence dominated the government’s policy narrative this year, but the spending choices point to a far more cautious strategy focused on application and infrastructure rather than frontier models.
PM launches $11.25 billion scheme to bring universities and industry together, simplify procurement, and scale labs and fellowships.
ICAI is in talks to provide financial records for domestic LLMs, as the government eyes a February launch for its own AI model.
India’s competition watchdog warns that AI could enable tacit collusion, discriminatory pricing and lock-in, urging companies to run self-audits as the IndiaAI Mission and new antitrust tools work to widen access and curb abuse.
The IIT Bombay led consortium secures $112 million under IndiaAI Mission to develop multilingual, open-source foundation models tailored to Indian needs
