India Boosts AI Sector via Missions and Enterprise Adoption

India's artificial intelligence sector is gaining momentum through government-led initiatives and widespread enterprise adoption, aiming to enhance productivity and foster technological self-reliance while reshaping the job market.

The IndiaAI Mission, a key government program, is driving efforts to democratize AI across sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, education, and defense. Launched to promote inclusive and safe AI deployment, the mission emphasizes human-centric applications and addresses risks through pillars focused on safety and trusted AI. Thirteen projects under the Safe and Trusted AI initiative are underway, targeting bias mitigation, privacy preservation, and deepfake detection. Complementing this, the AI Foundation Models pillar seeks to develop indigenous large language and multimodal models tailored to India's linguistic and socioeconomic diversity, reducing reliance on foreign technologies.

A significant milestone is the upcoming launch of Param2 17B, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual foundation model by the government-backed BharatGen consortium. Scheduled for the India AI Impact Summit in 2026, the model supports 22 Indian languages and operates as a...