According to Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, India has become a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), actively participating in all five layers of AI architecture: application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy.
He stressed the significance of techno-legal governance, economic viability, and widespread AI diffusion in his speech at the World Economic Forum. According to Vaishnaw, enterprise-level deployments—rather than the development of big models—will yield a substantial return on investment, making India the world’s largest provider of AI services.
He pointed out that models with 20–50 billion parameters can handle the majority of AI applications. He also emphasised the significance of GPU accessibility, which is made possible by a national compute centre that provides students and innovators with subsidised GPU access, supporting cost reduction and return on investment in AI development.According to Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, India has become a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), actively participating in all five layers of AI architecture: application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy.
He stressed the significance of techno-legal governance, economic viability, and widespread AI diffusion in his speech at the World Economic Forum. According to Vaishnaw, enterprise-level deployments—rather than the development of big models—will yield a substantial return on investment, making India the world’s largest provider of AI services.
He pointed out that models with 20–50 billion parameters can handle the majority of AI applications. He also emphasised the significance of GPU accessibility, which is made possible by a national compute centre that provides students and innovators with subsidised GPU access, supporting cost reduction and return on investment in AI development.

