{"id":251044,"date":"2026-01-22T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251044\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:40:11","slug":"vaishnaw-india-in-1st-league-of-ai-nations-not-a-follower-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/251044\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaishnaw: India in 1st league of AI nations, not a follower | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vaishnaw-meets-meta-chief-global-affairs-officer-joel-kaplan-on-the-sidelines-of-the-wef-annual-meet.png\" alt=\"Vaishnaw: India in 1st league of AI nations, not a follower\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: IT minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ashwini-vaishnaw\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashwini Vaishnaw<\/a> has pushed back on IMF&#8217;s comment of the country being a secondary AI power, positioning itself as a front-rank AI nation by focusing less on headline-grabbing large models and more on large-scale deployment.At a panel discussion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/world-economic-forum\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Economic Forum<\/a> annual meeting in Davos, Vaishnaw challenged the view that India sits in a secondary tier of AI powers. &#8220;Actually, clearly in the first group,&#8221; he said, arguing that the country is simultaneously building capability across all five layers of the AI stack &#8211; applications, models, chips, infrastructure and energy.The minister said the real economic value of AI did not lie in building ever-larger models but in enterprise-level deployment. &#8220;ROI (return on investment) doesn&#8217;t come from creating a very large model; 95% of the work can happen with models which are 20 billion or 50 billion parameters,&#8221; he said, adding that India has a bouquet of such models deployed across sectors to improve productivity and efficiency.He also questioned the assumption that ownership of large frontier models translates into geopolitical leverage. &#8220;Does creating a large model give you geopolitical power? I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; he said, noting that such models can be switched off and may even become financially unsustainable. &#8220;The economics of this fifth industrial revolution is going to come from ROI &#8211; deploying the lowest cost solution to get the highest possible return.&#8221;A key constraint, he said, is access to compute. To address this, India has empanelled around 38,000 GPUs under a public-private partnership model to create a common national compute facility. The system is govt-enabled and subsidised, allowing students, researchers and startups to access compute at roughly one-third of global costs.Outlining India&#8217;s broader approach, the minister said the focus is on four pillars: a shared compute facility, a free bouquet of practical AI models, large-scale skilling with a target of training 10 million people, and helping the IT services industry pivot towards AI-driven productivity.On regulation, he stressed the need for a techno-legal framework rather than laws alone. &#8220;Detecting deep fakes with the accuracy which can be taken to a court and be properly judicially checked&#8221; is essential, he said, adding that India is developing tools to mitigate bias and ensure proper unlearning before enterprise deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has pushed back on IMF&#8217;s comment of the country being a secondary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[133860,133857,133859,53575,220,114,184,619,85,207,133858,616,617,46,618,45131],"class_list":{"0":"post-251044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ai-capabilities-india","9":"tag-ai-deployment-in-india","10":"tag-ai-skilling-in-india","11":"tag-ashwini-vaishnaw","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-google-news","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-india-ai-news","19":"tag-india-news","20":"tag-india-news-today","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-today-news","23":"tag-world-economic-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}