'Urdu AI model Buraq to keep data at home'
Minister says identity, Raast & WASL exchange must come before AI can scale
Pakistan is building Buraq, its own large language model trained on Urdu and regional languages, and procuring sovereign compute capacity so that Pakistani data is processed within Pakistan, Federal Minister for IT and Telecom said at the Global AI and Digital Summit 2026 in Seoul. The minister told a World Bank panel on digital government service delivery that the model, and the public compute capacity behind it, f...