India's Sovereign AI Leap: February 2026

• IndiaAI Mission 2.0: Government compute capacity has expanded to 58,000+ GPUs, offering subsidized Blackwell-class processing to startups at record-low rates.
• The IT Amendment Rules 2026: Effective February 20, new regulations mandate a 3-hour takedown window for deepfakes and strict metadata labeling for all synthetic media.
• BharatGen Multi-Modal LLM: Launch of the world's first government-funded multi-modal model, now integrated into the Bhashini platform for real-time translation in 22 regional languages.
• NVIDIA AI Factories: New strategic partnerships with Yotta and L&T have successfully established "AI Factories" across Mumbai and Chennai to power domestic enterprise models.