The Government of India said the IndiaAI Mission, launched in March 2024, is building a national ecosystem for artificial intelligence to expand access, support innovation and promote India-centric solutions. The mission operates AIKosha, a platform providing models, tools and resources for health, agriculture and education with data privacy safeguards. AIKosha hosts text-to-speech models for Indic languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada and Malayalam and provides secure API access and an AI Sandbox for experimentation. Resources are available on the AIKosha website.

The iGOT Karmayogi initiative is strengthening AI awareness and capacity among government officials and stakeholders and offers over 176 courses on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. The platform has recorded about 7.30 million (mn) enrolments and 5.38 million (mn) completions, while the YUVA AI for All course has recorded about 0.13 million (mn) enrolments and 0.08 million (mn) completions. The IndiaAI Startups Global programme has selected 10 Indian startups for international acceleration and 30 applications are being developed to address agriculture, health and climate challenges.

12 teams were shortlisted in the first phase to develop indigenous foundational models and sovereign models from Sarvam AI, BharatGen, Gnani and Socket were launched at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026. These models are tailored for Indic languages and in some cases outperform leading frontier models on regional benchmarks, especially in document understanding. Sector-specific hackathons and innovation challenges organised with multiple agencies have identified 10 startups for scaling.

The mission recognises compute access as critical and has empanelled more than 38,000 GPUs through 14 AI service providers across data centres in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Noida and Jamnagar, accessible via the IndiaAI Compute portal. The Government is expanding capacity by adding 20,000 GPUs and is strengthening the data centre ecosystem, supported by a long-term tax holiday announced in the Union Budget 2026–27 for data centre and cloud investment. The AI Impact Summit 2026 attracted investment commitments of about $250 billion (bn), signalling global confidence in India’s AI ecosystem.