India, Feb. 23 -- The Government of Andhra Pradesh has announced plans to collaborate with IBM, BharatGen and NxtGen to build a Swadeshi AI Stack. The initiative is positioned as a sovereign AI technology framework designed to enable citizen-centric AI solutions in Telugu and other regional languages.

The Swadeshi AI Stack will unify AI models, government and related datasets, a software platform and deployment tools within a single architecture. The framework is designed to operate on sovereign Cloud platforms or on-premises datacentres within Indian jurisdiction.

The stated objective is to strengthen governance and service delivery across priority sectors while building AI capabilities aligned with India's linguistic and cultural cont...