OpenAI's new initiative, OpenAI for Countries, aims to target countries worldwide for building data centres.
India, meanwhile, is progressing with the IndiaAI Mission to create a sovereign AI stack.
OpenAI plans to establish a data centre in India and enable local storage for organizations using its products.
OpenAI is eyeing the Asia-Pacific region for setting up new data centres and recently opened an office in Korea.
Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt AI compute cluster, was launched by OpenAI along with global firms in Abu Dhabi.
IndiaAI mission features partnerships with companies to deploy over 18,000 GPUs at a lower cost.
Yotta has integrated Microsoft Azure AI services to support IndiaAI Mission, while Google is also exploring collaboration with the Indian government.
IndiaAI Mission focuses on a sovereign-first approach with public-private collaboration, distinguishing it from global initiatives like OpenAI for Countries.
Reliance Jio could potentially aid OpenAI in building data centres, which may challenge India's efforts to develop its own AI models.
The clash between IndiaAI Mission and OpenAI's Stargate reflects a deeper struggle for control in the AI era, with implications for India's AI sovereignty.