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COUNTRY · IN
India
Model development, business adoption and the research base behind them.
IN
No included count
Missing coverage is not zero activity.
0.65% of GDP
All R&D, not AI-only investment. Older observation; no newer value is inferred.
What this model count includes
—Entries in the broader Epoch catalogue
0Entries with a notability criterion
Same source, year and developer-country attribution. The broader catalogue includes versions and sizes. Neither number is the total number of models developed here.
Models behind the count
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Beyond one catalogue
Selected projects checked against institutions and developers. These may overlap with Epoch; they are not added to its count.
Sarvam 30B / 105BIN · Sarvam AI
Models trained from scratchDeveloper documents training entirely in India under the IndiaAI mission; hosted GLM, Gemma and DeepSeek models are excluded
Attribution sourceFirst-party checks reviewed 2026-10-25 · selected coverage
Country research · captured 2026-10-22Data dates
MODEL DEVELOPMENT
India in the model-building landscape
Annual notable-model entries · developer country · 2020–2025
International collaborations may appear in multiple countries. Counts are not additive market shares or a national AI-strength ranking.
Loading chartEpoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Complete years through 2025 · incomplete 2026 excluded
From policy to implementation
IndiaAI Mission
₹103.7bnapproved five-year outlay · INRCompute access, skills, datasets and startup support in one national mission.
The foundations around AI
These indicators describe all research and development, not AI-only expenditure or AI’s measured economic impact.
R&D expenditure
0.65% of GDP · all R&D · 2020 · India
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World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · % of GDP · all R&DR&D researchers
259.26per million people · all R&D · 2020 · India
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World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · per million people · all R&DEpoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Model comparisons stop at 2025; incomplete 2026 is excluded. No forward-filled research observations.
No statistically compatible enterprise-adoption series is included for India. Missing coverage is not zero adoption.
Models connected to India
Epoch’s notable-model selection · developer country · international projects can appear in multiple countries
StarCoderHugging Face,ServiceNow,Northeastern University,Mila - Quebec AI (originally Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms),Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),Johns Hopkins University,Leipzig University,ScaDS.AI,Queen Mary University of London,Roblox,Sea AI Lab,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,Monash University,CSIRO,Data61,McGill University,Saama,University of British Columbia (UBC),Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Technical University of Munich,IBM,University of Vermont,UnfoldML,SAP,University of Notre Dame,Columbia University,New York University (NYU),University of Allahabad,Discover Dollar,Toloka,Telefonica,Stanford University,Weizmann Institute of Science,Alan Turing Institute,Wellesley College,EleutherAI,Forschungszentrum JulichMulti-cell LSTMUniversity of Hyderabad