US Tops Global AI Readiness
A new Global AI Brain Race Report scores the U.S. 82/100 — the top-ranked AI ecosystem — while half of the top ten are now Asian countries, signalling a rapid geographic shift in capability reported. That ranking lands amid a louder push for inclusive AI governance and India’s plan to build domestic “foundation models” to reduce dependence on foreign providers, a move framed as both economic strategy and data‑sovereignty policy argued reported.
The report’s scoring breakdown shows the U.S. led in AI R&D (19.15/27.78), topped economic integration (22.22/22.22) and scored 16.21/16.67 on infrastructure, producing an overall 82/100. essayhumanizer.io China is second with a 59/100 score and the largest AI academic base (107 top AI universities), while Singapore ranks third (37/100) on the strength of unusually high academic quality. voronoiapp.com The analysis finds Asia supplies 50% of the top-10 nations, leaving Europe with a single entrant—Germany at #10 with a 28/100 score—signalling a regional consolidation of capability. voronoiapp.com India is placed sixth with a 32/100 final score, where the report quantifies strong talent but very low infrastructure (0.65/16.67) and governance readiness (0.11/5.56) as limiting factors. voronoiapp.com On March 13, 2026 the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser published a white paper titled “Advancing Indigenous Foundation Models,” outlining plans for LLMs, smaller sectoral models (SLMs), multimodal systems, and public‑private collaboration. cnbctv18.com The government is building shared compute capacity for model training—a 18,693‑GPU facility with the first 10,000 GPUs due online soon, supplied by firms including Yotta, Tata Communications and Jio Platforms, and accessible via an online portal. livemint.com Under the IndiaAI programme the government announced eight new foundational‑model projects on September 19, 2025—bringing the total selected initiatives to 12 and spanning models from under 10 billion to roughly 1 trillion parameters. fortuneindia.com
