India, May 27 -- India was quick to respond to Sam Altman when he underestimated the country's ability to build something even remotely comparable to ChatGPT during a visit in early 2023.

But within just seven months, India had an answer of its own. Krutrim, the country's first AI unicorn, launched a family of large language models (LLMs).

Following this, LLMs by Sarvam AI, BharatGen, CoRover.ai, Gnani.ai, Soket AI became the focal point for sovereign AI. Indian founders had started work on their own arsenal in response to the growing dominance of OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok.

Indeed, the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi this year was a culmination of this wave of sovereign AI that emerged in the aftermath o...