India must focus on building a 'sovereign AI' ecosystem to ensure autonomy over its data, according to Sarvam AI cofounder Vivek Raghavan.Sarvam AI has launched India's first open-source foundational language model, Sarvam 2B, focused on Indic languages.Raghavan's advocacy for sovereign AI comes amid rising calls in the country to avoid 'digital colonialism' and compete with global AI market leaders.India is looking to build a domestic large language model (LLM) under the INR 10,370 Cr IndiaAI Mission.