IndiaAI Mission Signs MoU with Parliament to Develop Indigenous AI Model: Report

IndiaAI Mission Signs MoU with Parliament to Develop Indigenous AI Model: Report
In a major push towards self-reliance in artificial intelligence, the IndiaAI Mission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Parliament to leverage its vast multilingual data for training indigenous AI models. IndiaAI mission will use this data for the development of indigenous AI technology, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced during a panel discussion at the Raisina Dialogue 2025, organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), according to a PTI report.

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Need for an Indigenous LLM

Vaishnaw reportedly said it is important to develop India’s own LLM (large language model like ChatGPT), as open source technology available at present may not remain open in future like OpenAI.

Highlighting the importance of developing India’s own large language model (LLM), Vaishnaw noted that publicly available AI technologies, such as OpenAI’s models, may not remain open-source in the future. To address this, the government has established AI Kosh, a common compute infrastructure for AI research.

“The most important part of the entire AI journey is getting the data sets. We have set up a common compute kind of structure called AI Kosh. Today morning, the India AI Mission and the Indian Parliament, we signed an MoU because Parliament has built a very large data sets in multiple languages over a period of time. That will be a very good training resource for training our models,” Vaishnaw was quoted as saying in the report.

He also said there are many similar data sources available through organisations like Doordarshan, All India Radio, etc.

OpenAI and Elon Musk are in a legal tussle over the transition of OpenAI from a non-profit to a for-profit organisation. According to the report, Vaishnaw, on a lighter note said that maybe OpenAI should change its name as well if it becomes a proprietary technology.