India, Feb. 19 -- During the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026, sovereign artificial intelligence models developed in India found special mentions as minister of electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw and also Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed national sovereignty when it comes to artificial intelligence.

Vaishnaw said that India's "bouquet of sovereign models", many of which were launched at the summit itself, are "focused on multi-modal and multilingual capability".

While no exclusive AI models developed in India were mentioned in PM's speech, it did put in focus India's three sovereign AI models - Sarvam AI, Gnani.ai, and BharatGen.

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