New Delhi, March 15 -- India's ambition is to establish a sustainable and competitive foundation for AI model capacity that can support long-term national requirements that will reduce the structural dependence on external providers, according to a government white paper.

The White Paper, prepared by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, called for enabling inclusive and affordable adoption across Indian languages, regions, and sectors through a layered ecosystem of large models, multimodal systems, and small language models, and position India as a credible contributor to global innovation.

Foundation models (FM) are a core enabling layer in modern AI systems because they can be adapted for many app...