Devroop Dhar, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Primus Partners, mentions that India must move beyond adopting global AI technologies and build sovereign capabilities across the AI ecosystem, including compute, models, data, infrastructure, talent and applications. The Primus Partners report, India Needs a Sovereign AI Revolution, highlights how dependence on foreign-owned AI models and infrastructure could create strategic vulnerabilities amid growing geopolitical tensions, export controls and competing national interests.
The report calls for increased investment in research and development, greater private-sector participation in frontier technologies such as AI, quantum computing and semiconductors, and policy reforms to unlock corporate CSR funding for in-house R&D. It also recommends a model-agnostic approach to AI adoption and stronger efforts to attract Indian researchers and AI professionals working overseas. These measures could strengthen India’s technological competitiveness, economic resilience and strategic autonomy.
