New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The use of proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models carries risks of transferring Indian data outside the country and allowing such systems to learn from the data shared with them, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary S Krishnan said, stressing that India is developing its domestic AI capabilities to preserve strategic autonomy.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the IndiaAI Mission and World Bank Group's India launch of the World Development Report 2026, Krishnan said the government was working on building the entire AI ecosystem in India while balancing the use of domestic technologies and existing global AI models.

"Where proprietary models are to be used, we need to ...