Sovereign AI for India | UPSC GS-2/3 Guide | UPSCPDF

UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: sovereign AI for India — US model curbs, frontier AI, IndiaAI Mission, R&D gap. GS-2/GS-3 guide with MCQs, Mains, Essay & Interview.

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Aggressive AI policy is the new normal. As frontier models become instruments of statecraft, India must leverage global AI while steadily reducing strategic technological dependence — balancing integration with home-grown capability. The United States recently directed a leading American AI company to suspend access to its most advanced models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5) for foreign nationals on national-security grounds. A parallel Presidential order creates a voluntary mechanism giving the U.S. federal government pre-access to such models up to 30 days before trusted partners, while the administration weighs taking equity stakes in leading AI firms. These moves are the latest and most dramatic in a series of sovereign actions showing that governments are increasingly shaping AI policy around national advantage. Europe is pivoting from "regulate first" toward AI-compute investment and "Buy European" procurement; Argentina is offering a regulatory safe harbour to attract AI capital. For I