India, Jan. 23 -- Using a cricket analogy, senior Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said the AI transformation is like a five-match test series, and it's only the first day of the first match that is underway. Speaking to media here during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Vaishnaw said a long journey is ahead in the AI transformation, and India will play a key role there.

India will play a very important role in all five layers and take a leadership position in the final application layer. The five layers of the AI stack are energy and power generation; chips and computing infrastructure; cloud data centres; AI models; and the application layer.

Vaishnaw said India will build some really good sovereign models in the mi...