AIM 100: India's Most Influential People Shaping AI in 2026
Ankush Sabharwal
Founder & CEO, CoRover | Creator, BharatGPT

Ankush Sabharwal has emerged as one of the leading voices in India’s sovereign AI movement through CoRover and BharatGPT. Over the past year, he has expanded BharatGPT from a multilingual conversational AI platform into a sovereign, agentic AI ecosystem under the IndiaAI Mission, focused on building trusted AI for enterprises, government, defense, and public services.
Under his helm, CoRover has strengthened its enterprise AI platform with deployments across public and private sectors while advancing sovereign AI assistants, AI VideoBots, and multilingual agentic AI solutions. Sabharwal believes India’s AI opportunity lies in building practical, sovereign AI solutions rather than simply replicating frontier models. He sees India’s future in creating trusted, multilingual AI systems that solve real-world problems at scale while retaining control over data, infrastructure, and intellectual property.
BharatGPT has meanwhile attracted global interest for its secure, scalable AI architecture, demonstrating that AI built in India can compete internationally while addressing local languages, governance, and population-scale use cases.
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