India, Feb. 25 -- India's AI Stack Builders

India is shaking up the global AI order. At the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit 2026, homegrown startups debuted sovereign models and teased new hardware. While the event signalled the emergence of a layered Indian AI stack, what exactly was the nation's billion-dollar pitch to the world?

The Pitch: The country's pitch at the summit centred on a layered Indian AI stack, which integrates foundational models with public digital infrastructure. Leading the charge, Sarvam AI unveiled its two indigenous AI models and a multilingual chatbot called Indus. Simultaneously, BharatGen unveiled Param 2, a 17-Bn parameter model trained extensively on Indian archival data.

These were not just ann...