IBM and Yotta Data Services have made their Sovereign Agentic AI Platform generally available to Indian organisations, moving the joint offering from an announced plan to a deployable enterprise service. The platform combines IBM’s enterprise AI software with Yotta’s India-based cloud infrastructure, providing a locally hosted environment for developing, operating and governing AI agents.
The service is built around IBM watsonx Orchestrate, which acts as the control plane for deploying and managing enterprise agents, and Yotta’s Shakti Cloud. The latter provides the compute, graphics-processing infrastructure, networking, security and operating environment required to run AI workloads. Yotta’s Shakti Studio adds model-development and inference capabilities, allowing customers to explore, fine-tune and deploy both open-source and proprietary models.
IBM and Yotta are positioning the platform around sovereign control extending beyond data residency. The design covers the infrastructure, models, inference processes, operational controls and governance policies involved in enterprise AI deployments. Data, agent operations and governance controls are intended to remain within India, addressing requirements faced by regulated companies and public-sector organisations as they move AI projects from experimentation into production.
The platform also provides a governance layer for monitoring agents as their use expands across business functions. Agentic systems can execute multistep tasks, use enterprise tools and interact with operational data, creating requirements for access controls, auditability and policy enforcement that are different from those associated with standalone generative-AI assistants. Watsonx Orchestrate is intended to provide organisations with a common mechanism for securing and managing these agents, while the underlying Shakti environment supplies domestic cloud and accelerator capacity.
Sandip Patel, managing director of IBM India and South Asia, said evolving regulation, digital sovereignty and the use of open-source models were becoming central considerations as organisations scaled AI. Sunil Gupta, co-founder, managing director and chief executive of Yotta Data Services, described the offering as an end-to-end sovereign stack covering infrastructure, models, inference, enterprise agents and compliance.
General availability follows the partners’ May 2026 announcement outlining plans for an India-hosted agentic AI service. The commercial launch places the platform within a rapidly expanding domestic sovereign-AI market in which enterprises are evaluating not only model performance but also where workloads run, how information is processed and who retains operational control.
The platform gives IBM a route to deliver its orchestration and governance technology on an Indian AI-cloud provider, while broadening Yotta’s enterprise offering beyond computing capacity. It also places Shakti Studio and Shakti Cloud within a unified deployment environment, covering model selection, infrastructure provisioning, agent execution and governance rather than requiring organisations to assemble those components separately.
