New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- India will have its first foundational Artificial Intelligence model in at maximum 10 months from now, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday.

The government is going to host an open source model like Chinese 'DeepSeek' on Indian servers. This comes at a time when Chinese startup has challenged the AI world.

Speaking at the India Today-Business Today Budget Roundtable, the minister said one must look at the entire India AI mission in a more comprehensive manner.

He said India has already approved the AI mission last year, with about Rs 10,000 crore allocation.

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