India, July 14 -- The Centre has reportedly asked homegrown AI unicorn Sarvam AI and BharatGen to develop advanced cybersecurity capabilities similar to Anthropic's Mythos as India looks to decrease reliance on foreign frontier models for protecting critical infrastructure.

The models are expected to be hosted on the government's isolated compute infrastructure and deployed to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, ET reported, citing officials. However, no timeline has been specified for the development of the capabilities.

Currently, the government is using a combination of open-source and indigenous AI models, including Sarvam, to identify and plug security gaps in critical infrastructure.

The national cybersecurity body...