India’s sovereign artificial intelligence model will be ready before the AI Impact Summit to be held in February, a top IT ministry official said on Friday.

Speaking at India Mobile Congress 2025, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said that though India was a late comer in the artificial intelligent, it has scaled up its compute infrastructure rapidly with the deployment of 38,000 GPU (graphics processing unit) against the target of 10,000 units and building up its own foundational models.

“Before the end of this year, hopefully, we should have our first foundational model, India, entirely an Indian foundational model. By the time of the India AI Summit, we should be able to launch India's sovereign model as well,” Krishnan said.

Krishnan said that the government is concerned about the impact AI can have and is looking to develop platforms that are inclusive.

“I think the other important element of what we are targeting is a lot of smaller models which are sector specific, because ultimately the delivery has to be, in the Indian context, something which is meaningful and enhances productivity. Something which delivers to people who most need it in the sectors where AI has to make a difference,” Krishnan said. He said that the government is continuously enhancing the compute infrastructure and will soon make more GPUs available for Indian firms.  "We continue to call for bids from time to time and practically every quarter we have bids, we have a bid out right now. People are adding capacity, as they add capacity we continue to add the GPUs which are offered,” he said.