Sovereign AI is only as strong as the data that powers it
By Varun Babbar, VP & India MD, Qlik
India is racing to build a sovereign artificial intelligence stack, and the momentum is real. Through the IndiaAI Mission, the government is stitching together compute capacity, indigenous foundation models, talent pipelines and a governance framework meant to give the country control over its own AI future. AI Kosh, the national data and compute repository, has already brought together more than 7,500 datasets and 273 AI models across 20 sectors. That is a genuine achievement, and it deserves recognition.
But there is a quieter problem sitting underneath all this ambition: making data available is not the same as making it usable. Data that powers AI systems in India, as in most large economies, remains scattered across departments, companies and legacy systems, with gaps in quality, accessibility and oversight. If data readiness does not keep pace with investment in chips and models, India risks...
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