India Launches Three Homegrown AI Models Under IndiaAI Mission

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has introduced three indigenous AI foundation models, all built by Indian companies under the IndiaAI Mission. The government says the models are suited to specialised tasks and to settings where data must stay secure and cut off from the internet.

EKA-1 for heavy reasoning work

The largest of the three is EKA-1, developed by Bengaluru-based Socket AI. It has 26 billion parameters and was trained on 7.5 trillion tokens. The model targets mathematics, coding and reasoning, and can handle multi-step tasks and run code. It supports more than 100 Indian and international languages, along with programming languages.

EKA-1 can be deployed on a company’s own servers, in a private cloud or in fully air-gapped environments. Socket AI says it will open up the model weights within a month, and early access is currently through a waitlist. The company sees defence, cybersecurity, banking...

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