India, June 18 -- Sovereign AI is back in the spotlight.

India tried to position itself as a 'neutral' market through the India AI Impact Summit in February this year, but the landscape has completely changed since then.

Tech giants of the world descended on New Delhi for the summit as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood amid the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other Silicon Valley AI leaders. But everything points to a more insular AI world now.

Since February, another war broke out in West Asia, denting India's growth prospects severely, and coinciding with this foreign investors pulled out record amounts of capital from the market, with many pointing out that India's subpar AI ecosystem is the chief factor.

And then Anthropic ...