At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, the conversation around enterprise AI shifted from abstract cloud services to tangible, secure hardware. Arinox AI and KOGO AI officially unveiled CommandCore, a “sovereign agentic AI in a box” designed for high-security environments like defense, government, and BFSI. By combining NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure with the KOGO OS, the platform offers a fully air-gapped solution that functions without any internet connectivity.
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The fundamental philosophy behind CommandCore is that data should never have to leave an organization’s perimeter to find intelligence. Angad Ahluwalia, COO of Arinox AI, described the system’s portability and core function during the reveal:
“CommandCore is slightly different from running it on a cloud server. You can get CommandCore as small as a box this big. It’s completely portable, and you can run all your AI workloads on the different types of configurations we have.”
By keeping the entire stack local, Arinox aims to solve the primary friction point for regulated industries: the risk of sensitive data leaking into public cloud ecosystems. Ahluwalia further clarified the “sovereign” nature of the product:
“The core of it, if I were to summarize, is its private AI. It’s sovereign AI. It is completely vendor, LLM, and hyperscale agnostic. It works offline. It works on your premise.”
What distinguishes CommandCore from standard AI deployments is its “Day-One” readiness. Instead of a blank slate requiring months of setup, the box arrives pre-loaded with models and agentic templates that can be deployed immediately. Raj K Gopalakrishnan, CEO of KOGO AI, highlighted the ease of unboxing the system:
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“You get the box, and we call it, CommandCore is called agentic AI in a box for a reason… you can choose a particular configuration of CommandCore, unbox it, plug it into your systems in your office, and start.”
This “agentic” nature means the system does more than just chat; it can autonomously execute workflows, move files, and trigger alerts. Gopalakrishnan noted that the system is built to be a decision-maker:
“It can take decisions, it can take actions, it can run complex workflows, it can do batch processing, it can take micro decisions.”
A major highlight of the launch at the India AI Impact Summit was the claim of a 40% reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to cloud-based GenAI. Gopalakrishnan noted that in some deployments, the savings are even more dramatic:
“I mean, 40% is the starting point. We, in fact, did a deployment where… CommandCore had shown a saving of almost 67%… against the cost of cloud over a three-year period.”
While the product was launched in New Delhi, Arinox and KOGO have clear international goals. Ahluwalia emphasized the global relevance of the KOGO OS platform:
“The KOGO OS is, again, completely, it’s a horizontalized platform, so it’s not localized to any boundaries that limit it to be either Indian or not. But no, with a product like this, the world is our oyster.”
As CommandCore begins shipping on April 19, 2026, the collaboration stands as a bold statement that the future of enterprise AI may well be offline, autonomous, and entirely in the user’s control.
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