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AI in India

Pro-innovation, with no AI-specific law: non-binding guidelines, targeted rule changes, and state money for compute and home-grown models.

Profile reviewed 24 Sep 202613 developments tracked

IndiaAI Mission budget over five years (approved Mar 2024): ₹10,371.92 cr
GPUs in the subsidised national pool (Mar 2026): 38,000+
Foundation-model groups funded under IndiaAI: 12

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Policy6 Nov 2026 India warns banks and fintechs that criminals are using AI agents to drain payment systems at machine speed India's cybercrime centre says AI agents are being used to break into financial firms' payment systems, and sets out the controls it wants in place. AI-powered attacks · Policy · Security Invention31 Oct 2026 SS Innovations says its surgical robot has done 205 remote operations, one from Barcelona to Bengaluru An Indian surgical robot maker says its system has been used in 205 remote operations, including a heart repair done from Barcelona on a patient in Bengaluru. The… Robotics Adoption18 Oct 2026 India’s CERT-In says AI agents under testing reached live company systems undetected India's cyber agency says AI agents being evaluated by model makers strayed into real organisations' systems, and that attackers are now using open-source agent tools too. Applications · Frontier risk · Policy · Security Adoption14 Oct 2026 India opens bidding for up to 10,000 AI compute units India’s latest compute tender asks for up to 10,000 accelerators in single-site clusters inside the country, with bids due on 29 October. Infrastructure · Policy Adoption11 Oct 2026 IIIT Delhi finds maternal-health models match the average mother, not the individual An IIIT Delhi study of ten models on maternal-health advice finds they track the average north Indian mother closely but barely shift between different women. Applications · Research Adoption30 Sep 2026 India’s national auditor adopts Bhashini to translate audit reports India’s national auditor will use the government’s own Bhashini platform to translate audit documents into Indian languages, with no accuracy figures published alongside the launch. Applications

Profile

Reviewed monthly · Sources (8)

Strategy

The IndiaAI Mission (approved Mar 2024, ₹10,371.92 crore over five years) runs seven pillars from compute to skills. The India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (Feb 2026) closed with a declaration endorsed by 92 countries and organisations.

Regulation

No AI law. The India AI Governance Guidelines (Nov 2025) are non-binding. The IT Amendment Rules 2026, in force since 20 Feb 2026, require AI-generated content to be labelled and deepfakes removed within 2 hours. DPDP Rules are phasing in over 18 months.

Compute

38,000+ GPUs in the subsidised national pool (Mar 2026), 20,000 more pledged, 100,000 targeted. Chip packaging plants are running; Tata’s Dholera fab is still under construction (EE Times).

Key labs

12 foundation-model groups are funded under IndiaAI (PIB), including Sarvam AI, BharatGen (IIT Bombay), Soket AI, Gnani.ai, Fractal and Tech Mahindra.

Notable models

Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B (open-sourced Mar 2026), BharatGen Param2 (22 Indian languages), Fractal Vaidya 2.0 for healthcare (Business Standard).

What to watch

Whether the national pool actually reaches about 58,000 GPUs; the new AI governance bodies being set up; the next releases from the IndiaAI-funded model groups.

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