New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Nvidia outlined what it calls a practical roadmap for scaling artificial intelligence in India - a five-layer "industrial stack" that places start-ups at the core of the country's sovereign AI ambitions.

In a pre-summit briefing on Tuesday,Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director of Nvidia South Asia, said AI should be viewed not as a standalone model or chatbot, but as a full industrial system spanning energy, chips, infrastructure, foundational models and end-user applications.

"We see AI as an entire industrial system," Dhupar said, adding that real scale will come when Indian companies build across all five layers rather than focusing only on applications.

According to Nvidia, India...