Sovereign AI, American law

India is spending over 10,000 crore rupees building what it calls sovereign AI. The servers are going up in Mumba and the ministers are saying the word at every summit.

There is just one problem: nobody has defined what sovereign actually means.  And the chips powering all of it are American, subject to American law. A US subpoena can reach a data centre in Mumbai as easily as one in Seattle.

In this edition of Make in India Competitive Again, The Ken reporter Mrunmayee Kulkarni delves into what this really means.

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