India’s AI debate is moving from adoption to control. Sarvam’s $234M raise at a $1.5B valuation gives the country’s best-known full-stack AI contender more room to build models, inference, and enterprise products for local languages and public-sector workflows.
NAVER plans to expand GAK Sejong to 55MW and eventually toward gigawatt-scale AI factory capacity. NVIDIA’s post frames DSX as the stack for sovereign AI, HyperCLOVA X, and agentic services.
Europe’s sovereign AI argument just gained a balance sheet. Cohere and Aleph Alpha plan to combine, while Schwarz Group companies line up $600M (€500M) in financing to turn compliance, local hosting and frontier-model scale into one offer for governments and regulated industries.
NVIDIA’s February 18, 2026 update outlines how it is supporting IndiaAI Mission priorities through GPU infrastructure expansion, sovereign model development, and research/startup programs. The post ties government policy goals to specific cloud, model, and financing collaborations.