The GAHNA Project envisions a future where AI is not just powerful but purposeful, sovereign, and domain-aware - serving the real needs of governments, enterprises, and citizens. As the world moves beyond generic Large Language Models toward application-specific intelligence, GAHNA will be leading the shift by developing Small Language Models (SLMs) that are lightweight, auditable, and built on indigenous data and logic. These models are designed not to answer every question in the world, but to answer the right questions in the right domains - reliably, securely, and at scale.
India, with its multilingual diversity, sectoral complexity, and versatile policy infrastructure, cannot rely on foreign black-box AI systems alone. GAHNA aims to empower the country’s digital ecosystem by creating a factory of sovereign SLMs - one for every mission-critical domain: governance, agriculture, healthcare, finance, law, education, and more. This initiative aligns with the broader global movement toward AI localization, data sovereignty, and operational trust, positioning India not just as a consumer of AI, but as a builder of purposeful intelligence.