Ankesh Arora

A-Square Group | Advancing Gov x AI | @dartmouth

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National Intelligence Infrastructure #GovxAI

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Au revoir Paris

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Global grid for rare earth and critical minerals.

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Legacy Gala #AroraFoundation

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The Archive #AroraFoundation

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Blue Meridian

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Bonjour 🇫🇷

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EU 🇪🇺

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On behalf of 1.4 billion Indians, I extend my warmest congratulations to President Trump and the people of the United States on the historic 250th anniversary of your Independence.

India and the United States share more than a strategic partnership. Our shared belief in democracy, rule of law and the limitless potential of our people make our friendship a force for global good.

May the next 250 years bring even greater prosperity, peace and progress for America and take the India-US partnership to new heights.

@POTUS

@realDonaldTrump

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The next generation of public infrastructure will not be defined by concrete alone. It will be defined by intelligence. #GovxAI

- Airport Intelligence Infrastructure

Airports evolve from transport hubs into intelligent national infrastructure

- Government Intelligence Infrastructure

AI becomes a core layer of public administration, not just an IT tool.

- Cultural Intelligence Infrastructure

Airports, museums, and public spaces become living expressions of national identity.

- National Decision Infrastructure

Governments augment policy and operational decision-making with institutional intelligence.

- Critical Infrastructure Intelligence

Energy, transport, water, logistics, and emergency systems become continuously adaptive.

- The Intelligence Economy

Nations begin competing on institutional intelligence as much as physical capital.

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Building #GovxAI for Airports

Airport intelligence infrastructure is the intelligent operating layer that enables airports to sense, understand, decide, and continuously optimize every aspect of airport operations, infrastructure, passenger experience, and governance.

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For decades, airports were engineered for movement.

The next era is about meaning.

The world’s best terminals are becoming cultural destinations because infrastructure should do more than connect cities—it should connect people to the identity of a place.

That’s the direction we’re building toward.

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Sovereignty in the Age of Intelligence

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India’s Sovereignty Cannot Be Outsourced

The recent decision by Anthropic to restrict access to advanced foundation models serves as a timely reminder of a strategic reality: nations that do not control their own intelligence infrastructure ultimately depend on the decisions of others.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming foundational infrastructure - alongside energy, telecommunications, transportation, and defense. It will shape how governments govern, how economies compete, how institutions operate, and how societies access knowledge. In such an environment, relying entirely on foreign AI systems creates a structural dependency that no major nation can afford.

Today, access to advanced AI capabilities can be limited, modified, repriced, censored, or withdrawn based on commercial priorities, regulatory obligations, geopolitical considerations, or corporate policy decisions beyond India's control. What is available today may not be available tomorrow.

India's digital future cannot depend solely on intelligence systems owned, governed, and controlled elsewhere.

Sovereign AI is not merely about building a large language model. It is the ability of a nation to develop, deploy, govern, and continuously evolve AI systems aligned with its own strategic interests, legal frameworks, cultural context, economic priorities, and national security requirements.

For India, Sovereign AI means:

- National control over critical AI infrastructure

- Indigenous foundation models trained on Indian knowledge systems, languages, and realities

- Secure deployment across government, defense, healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure

- Strategic autonomy in the age of machine intelligence

- Long-term resilience against external technological disruptions

Just as previous generations invested in sovereign space programs, nuclear capabilities, digital identity infrastructure, and telecommunications networks, this generation must invest in sovereign intelligence infrastructure.

The question is no longer whether AI will become central to national power. It already is.

The question is whether India will consume intelligence created elsewhere- or create intelligence infrastructure that serves its own people, institutions, and future.

In the 21st century, sovereignty will increasingly be defined not only by borders, military strength, or economic output, but by a nation's ability to generate, govern, and deploy intelligence at scale.

Any nation can remain independent.

Only a nation with Sovereign AI can remain truly sovereign.

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@Tejasvi_Surya India needs a clandestine AI program just like Smiling Buddha

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The architecture of Gov x AI