India, Feb. 3 -- Artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the most transformative forces of our timedriving economic growth, improving public services, and accelerating solutions to complex global challenges. From enabling early disease detection and precision agriculture to strengthening disaster preparedness, climate modelling, and welfare delivery at scale, AI is already reshaping how societies function. As with earlier technological revolutions, however, it is also redefining competitive advantage, often shaped by access to critical resources.

Today, these differences are increasingly geographic, with uneven access to compute, data, and infrastructure influencing who can innovate at scale. India's response has been clea...