New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu Founding Director Manoj Singh Gaur on Thursday said that India has the potential to develop sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) models "tailored for national needs" and leveraging lessons from its digital infrastructure.

Speaking to ANI at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 here, Professor Gaur highlighted the transformative impact of India's digital public infrastructure initiatives and cited "Aadhaar and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as examples."

"This is an opportunity for us to replicate what we did as a digital public infrastructure in the form of Aadhaar and UPI, which nobody thought about, but at scale it happened on the ground," he said.

Gaur also stressed...