India, April 4 -- Electronics and information technology ministry (MeitY) additional secretary Abhishek Singh said that the Centre plans to finalise the "first set" of proposals for building indigenous foundational AI models in the next two weeks.

As per Economic Times, Singh also said that the government has received more than 200 proposals from companies looking to build homegrown large language models (LLMs). This follows the Centre, in January, floating a proposal to build such an AI model.

"There are a lot of expectations around models - (people say that) China has got DeepSeek, when will India have its own AI model?" he was quoted as saying at the Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi. Adding further, he said that India would need a voic...