New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, sovereignty was not framed as a slogan. It was framed as an engineering problem.

While talking to CiOL, Renu Raman, founder and CEO of Proximal Cloud, shed light on Proximal.ai laid out what it calls an enterprise and sovereign AI roadmap, anchored in partnerships with AMD, NxtGen, and E2E Networks.

The company positioned itself as a layer that brings compute and intelligence closer to where enterprise data actually lives inside hospitals, universities, government departments, and agricultural systems.

But the bigger message was this: keeping AI infrastructure inside India is not the same as owning it.

Interview Excerpts:

"India's 'sovereign AI' narrative has to be read as a s...