“Adani Wants India To Build Its Own AI. Here Is What That Would Take.”, Swarajya, January 04, 2026
“In December 2024, Gautam Adani stood at a new artificial intelligence centre in Baramati and made a declaration that sounded like common sense but carried revolutionary implications. “A nation of 1.4 billion people,” he said, “cannot afford to place its jobs, data, culture, and collective intelligence at the mercy of foreign algorithms.” India needed its own AI. India needed sovereignty over the technology that would reshape its economy, its governance, its future.
He was right. But what would getting there actually require?
Adani did not elaborate, and perhaps he did not need to. The statement was aspirational, a direction rather than a blueprint. But blueprints exist. Across the Himalayas, China has spent a decade building precisely what Adani described—an AI ecosystem that owes nothing to Silicon Valley, that competes with the best American laboratories, and that has begun exporting its models to the world. To understand what sovereign AI demands, India need only study what China has done. The picture is more strange, more instructive, and more daunting than most Indian observers realise…….”
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