As India accelerates its AI ambitions, one question is moving to the forefront: where will India’s AI actually run?
From training foundation models to serving millions of real-time inference requests, AI today demands more than experimentation environments – it requires production-grade, sovereign, high-performance infrastructure hosted within India.
Shakti Cloud, India’s sovereign AI cloud, deployed within national boundaries, is enabling research institutions, public platforms, startups, and enterprises to train, deploy, and scale AI workloads securely and reliably.
Here’s how some of India’s leading AI organisations are building on it
Powering BharatGen’s India-First Foundation Models
For national AI initiatives such as BharatGen, access to hyperscale, secure infrastructure has been critical in developing foundation models that reflect India’s linguistic, cultural, and real-world diversity.
"At BharatGen, our mission is to build foundation models that truly represent India - its languages, culture, and real-world contexts. Access to hyperscale, secure digital infrastructure under the IndiaAI Mission - including platforms such as Yotta’s Shakti Cloud - has been instrumental in the development and training of our PARAM-1 and PARAM-2 LLM and SLM model series, providing high-performance NVIDIA H100 infrastructure, a production-grade distributed training stack, and the scale required to iterate rapidly on India-first data. This collaboration exemplifies the collective effort needed to build and deploy world-class, sovereign AI within India, enabling researchers, startups, and public platforms to innovate faster with trust, security, and national-scale readiness.”
Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Principal Investigator & Board Member, BharatGen
Enabling BHASHINI’s Population-Scale Language AI
Government-backed platforms such as Digital India BHASHINI Division are leveraging Shakti Cloud to deliver AI-powered language services to millions of users across India.
“Bhashini was created to make language a bridge, not a barrier, for every Indian. Running our platform on Yotta’s sovereign cloud stack has fundamentally strengthened our ability to deliver that vision at national scale. With our application layer on Yntraa and inference powered by Shakti Cloud, we build “voice-first applications” with end-to-end Voice Journeys besides having transcription & translation of millions of users across India. Dedicated GPU infrastructure combined with serverless inference has removed operational complexity, enabled elastic scaling, and ensured consistently high performance without compromising SLAs. This end-to-end, India-hosted AI stack allows us to focus on building language AI for real-world governance, citizen services, and digital inclusion - securely, efficiently, and at population scale.”
Amitabh Nag
CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division
Enabling Zoho’s Enterprise-Grade AI at Scale
Enterprises such as Zoho are adopting sovereign AI infrastructure to scale domain-specific AI applications with long-term control and confidence.
"At Zoho, we have always believed that critical digital infrastructure must be built with long-term sovereignty, security, and accountability at its core.
Our partnership with Yotta reflects that belief. As our platforms and AI capabilities continue to scale across markets and customer segments, Shakti Cloud gives us the confidence to grow without infrastructure becoming a constraint. Its high-performance, India-hosted GPU cloud allows us to train and deploy in India domain-specific AI models reliably today, while providing a clear, scalable path for future growth. This alignment between Zoho’s philosophy of self-reliant technology and Yotta’s sovereign cloud infrastructure demonstrates that India can build, operate, and scale world-class digital and AI systems on trusted foundations over the long term.”
Shailesh Davey
Group CEO & Co-Founder, Zoho
From Experimentation to Production - Without Re-Architecture for Sarvam
AI-native companies such as Sarvam are leveraging Shakti Cloud to unify training and inference on a single, purpose-built platform.
“Yotta through their pioneering vision brought in state-of-the-art compute into India enabling researchers like us to compete globally. Since day one, Sarvam’s innovation in AI has been anchored on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud — from training all our models end-to-end on its high-performance NVIDIA H100 GPU infrastructure to serving inference at scale. With Shakti Cloud powering over one million daily inference requests today, we’re not only commercializing lightweight models successfully but also building India’s first large language model on 4,096 H100 GPUs fully enabled through Yotta and supported by the IndiaAI Mission. This deep partnership gives us the performance, reliability, and sovereign stack needed to push India-first AI into real-world impact.”
Dr. Pratyush Kumar
Co-Founder, Sarvam
Supporting Open-Source AI at National Scale for Soket AI Labs
Open-source AI builders such as Soket AI Labs are using Shakti Cloud’s balanced architecture to scale training, inference, and synthetic data generation without infrastructure bottlenecks.
“At Soket AI, we are building open-source large language models to power India’s AI future. Doing this at national scale requires more than raw compute - it demands scalable data pipelines, high-performance storage, and the ability to train without infrastructure constraints. On Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, we have been able to scale from a single node to hundreds of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with stable and predictable performance. Kubernetes clusters support real-time inference and synthetic data generation, while SLURM-based training integrated with high-speed storage enables efficient distributed model training. With 1,536 NVIDIA H100 GPUs provisioned on Shakti Cloud under the IndiaAI Mission, we are advancing Project EKΛ, India’s open, India-first foundation model initiative, while focusing on building and evaluating production-ready AI systems.”
Abhishek Upparwal
CEO & Founder, Soket AI Labs
Meeting Qure.ai’s Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance Needs
For regulated AI leaders such as Qure.ai, Shakti Cloud enables elastic GPU scaling while maintaining strict compliance and governance requirements.
“At Qure.ai, trust, security, and clinical reliability are non-negotiable. Our journey with Yotta began with a clear need for control and governance — running our CPU workloads and sensitive datasets on dedicated infrastructure that meets stringent healthcare compliance requirements. As our model training needs expanded, GPU scalability became the real constraint. Shakti Cloud allowed us to extend our secure environment with privately connected, high-performance GPU infrastructure — removing challenges around power, cooling, and long procurement cycles. Today, we train and iterate elastically on Shakti Cloud without compromising security or performance, enabling our teams to focus on deploying clinically impactful AI at speed for India and global healthcare systems.”
Prashant Warier
Co-Founder & CEO, Qure.ai
Building India’s Sovereign AI Future
As India advances its AI ambitions, the emphasis is increasingly shifting from experimentation to execution at national scale. For organisations across research, public platforms, startups, and enterprises, access to India-hosted compute and scalable infrastructure has become a practical requirement.
Shakti Cloud supports activities ranging from model training to production inference, ensuring data residency within national boundaries while enabling predictable scaling and operational control. Together, these deployments reflect how India’s AI ecosystem is moving toward sovereign, production-ready execution.