Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw outlined India’s approach to Artificial Intelligence, emphasising large-scale AI diffusion, economic viability, and techno-legal governance, during a panel discussion titled “AI Power Play, No Referees” at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos on 20 January 2026.Addressing a question on global AI alignments and geopolitics, the Minister stated that India clearly belongs in the first group of AI nations. He noted that AI architecture comprises five layers — application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy; and India is actively working across all five. “At the application layer, India will probably be the biggest supplier of services to the world,” he said, adding that return on investment (ROI) in AI comes from enterprise-level deployment and productivity gains, not from creating very large models alone. He observed that nearly 95 per cent of AI use cases can be addressed with models in the 20–50 billion parameter range, many of which India already has and is deploying across sectors.
