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India may not need to build its own massive foundation models to emerge as a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, but it could become one of the world\u2019s largest users of AI, according to Red Hat\u2019s top executive for the region.<\/p>
Navtez Bal, vice president and general manager for India and South Asia at enterprise open-source software provider Red Hat, said the country\u2019s strength lies in how effectively it adapts and deploys existing technologies rather than creating them from scratch.<\/p>
\u201cIndia will become one of the biggest users of AI in the world. There is no doubt about it,\u201d Bal told Business Today in an interview.<\/p>
He argued that India\u2019s so-called technological lag could actually accelerate adoption.<\/p>
\u201cIndia will do a much better job in taking the large language models which exist and actually tweaking and distilling them for our own usage, so that we have more fit-for-purpose models,\u201d he said.<\/p>
In the long run, Bal suggested, success in the AI race may not be determined by who builds the most powerful systems.<\/p>
\u201cIt’ll be on who uses models more effectively. That’s where the differentiation will lie.\u201d<\/p>
Sovereign AI without vendor lock-in<\/strong><\/p> As governments and industry leaders push for sovereign AI, including domestic models, data and infrastructure, Bal emphasised that ownership and control matter more than technological nationalism alone.<\/p> For organisations seeking sovereignty, dependence on a single vendor or proprietary platform could become a strategic risk, he said.<\/p> \u201cIf you are a sovereign AI-focused company, then you need a solution that belongs to you and is not locked in,\u201d Bal said. Such an approach would ensure that \u201cdata remains within India, controls remain within India, the control on source code remains within India.\u201d<\/p> Red Hat, whose products are built on open-source technologies such as Linux and the OpenShift platform, is positioning itself as an alternative to proprietary AI ecosystems dominated by global hyperscalers.<\/p> The company serves some of the biggest companies across healthcare, automotive, Finance, technology, and others. Some of the clients globally\u00a0include Salesforce, Toyota, Ford, and others. Red Hat also has a massive footprint in India with clients like UIDAI, Life Insurance, EPFO, State Bank of India, Jio Platforms, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, and others.<\/p> The new workforce triangle<\/strong><\/p> Bal also outlined a structural shift in how work itself will be organised in the AI era, describing a three-way interaction between humans, software agents and robots.<\/p> \u201cPretty much every process has to be rethought with these in mind,\u201d he said, calling this emerging structure a \u201cnew workforce triangle.\u201d<\/p> He urged organisations and workers to accelerate adaptation.<\/p> \u201cThe ones who will actually do this the fastest will be the ones who will have a massively advantageous position going forward. Please accelerate your transformations.\u201d<\/p> <\/div> Red hat, AI, sovereign AI, AI models, India AI adoption, India AI market, Red Hat India AI, India AI infrastructure, sovereign AI India, UIDAI, Life Insurance, EPFO, State Bank of India, Jio Platforms, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors#India #lead #building #models #Red #Hat #India #chief1772194940<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India may not need to build its own massive foundation models to emerge as a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, but it could become one of the world\u2019s largest users of AI, according to Red Hat\u2019s top executive for the region. Navtez Bal, vice president and general manager for India and South Asia at enterprise open-source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[99,8161,13467,250,1226,3401,13517,200,13509,13512,13510,13515,9012,13513,6976,13516,13507,13511,13508,12581,13514,2782,12819],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-ai","tag-ai-models","tag-bharti-airtel","tag-building","tag-chief","tag-epfo","tag-hat","tag-india","tag-india-ai-adoption","tag-india-ai-infrastructure","tag-india-ai-market","tag-jio-platforms","tag-lead","tag-life-insurance","tag-models","tag-red","tag-red-hat","tag-red-hat-india-ai","tag-sovereign-ai","tag-sovereign-ai-india","tag-state-bank-of-india","tag-tata-motors","tag-uidai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}