New Delhi, May 29 -- India must build more foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models as these are likely to solve multifaceted issues, according to the country's G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant.

India's linguistic diversity is likely to play a major role in solving global issues in the sector, Kant said at the CII Annual Business Summit 2025 in New Delhi.

"What we did in digital public infrastructure is that we used open source, open API, globally interoperable models and those models will be the way forward for us. Therefore, India must build its foundational model," said Kant at the summit.

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