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AI and robotics: technology and India's capability

Artificial intelligence and robotics as national capability: computing power and foundation models, uses in public life, robots, autonomous vehicles and drones. Prelims has asked how large language models work and what artificial intelligence can effectively do.

Foundation note: How a large language model works

UPSC has asked

Prelims 2020: what artificial intelligence can effectively do at present

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IndiaAI Mission

Prelims and Mains

The IndiaAI Mission is the central programme for artificial intelligence capability.

It funds indigenous foundation models, empanels compute providers to supply GPU hours, and gathers problem statements from ministries for AI solutions.
Its outlay is over ₹10,372 crore, and its shared compute facility holds over 45,000 graphics processing units.
AI Kosh carries its datasets.

What changed

29 Jul 2026New
- Indigenous model projects are being supported, including Sarvam AI's 30 billion and 105 billion parameter models and BharatGen's multilingual models.
- After the India AI Impact Summit of February 2026, ministries listed problem statements for AI solutions.
Mains: one view is that India's opening lies in applied and multilingual systems built on its own data, and that government procurement can shape that market as public standards did for payments and identity.
PIB, 29 Jul 2026: IndiaAI Mission Identifies 762 AI Use Cases Across 62 Ministries, Approves 58 AI Centres of Excellence and 543 Data & AI Labs (opens in a new tab) · PIB, 27 Jul 2026: India's Safe & Trusted AI Pillar Powers Responsible Innovation while Shaping Global AI Governance (opens in a new tab) · Frontline, 1 Jul 2026: India is a heavy user of artificial intelligence and a light builder of it, and the case being made is that its opening lies in applied and multilingual systems rather than in frontier models. (opens in a new tab)

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31 Aug 2026BriefA foundation model is trained once on broad data and adapted afterwards to many tasks. BharatGen, led by IIT Bombay, released Param-2, a model of 17 billion parameters covering all 22 scheduled languages. PIB, 31 Aug 2026: Cyber-Physical Systems mission: translation parks and BharatGen (opens in a new tab)

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