India Pushes Sovereign AI but Lacks Its Own Frontier Model

India has made "sovereign AI"—models and infrastructure optimized for its own data, languages and regulations—a national strategy, aiming to join Japan and the UK as an AI power. Yet it lags in building the most advanced large models, hemmed in by a shortage of compute and reliance on foreign cloud providers. A Bloomberg feature laid out this reality check on June 2, 2026.