India-Japan AI cooperation roadmap announced at the New Delhi summit

N ew Delhi: Even as the recent US move to restrict access of foreign nationals to Anthropic's most advanced models triggered questions about tech sovereignty, India and Japan on Thursday launched a strategic partnership in artificial intelligence to jointly develop large language models, compute infrastructure and semiconductor ecosystems, while enabling replication of successful applications across the Indo-Pacific and the Global South. Advertisement The announcement came days after the US briefly restricted foreign nationals' access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models on national security grounds before reversing the decision. Though the restrictions were later lifted, the episode underscored concerns that access to frontier AI capabilities could increasingly be shaped by geopolitical considerations, reinforcing the case for trusted technology partnerships and indigenous...