India, Feb. 20 -- As India hosts the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi with a strong focus on sovereign AI, remarks by White House official Sriram Krishnan have sparked controversy. The Chennai-born advisor drew criticism online after urging countries, including India, to build on what he described as the "American AI stack" during his address at the summit.

Krishnan, who currently serves as the Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI, said the US wants the rest of the world to adopt US-built AI infrastructure, models and applications. "We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack. we want to make sure that the world uses our AI models, and third it uses our applications and builds applications on top. We want to make...