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India-AI Impact Summit 2026: By bringing top AI (Artificial Intelligence) leaders under a roof at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, India has expressed its strong desire to become a hub of AI technology. On Thursday, the entire world witnessed India's emergence as a soft power, when the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, the Chief AI Officer of Meta, Alexandr Wang, and the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei shared the dias, discussing the road ahead to expand AI.

Addressing the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined a comprehensive and human-centric approach, MANAV, to Artificial Intelligence (AI), urging the global community to balance innovation with responsibility while shaping the future of AI.

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What Is India's AI Plan?

GitHub, which is a community of developers, has ranked India at the top with the global share of 24% of all projects, which means the AI future belongs to India. So, India accelerates its preparation to take a decisive and confident leap in artificial intelligence (AI). Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that India will expand its compute capacity beyond the existing 38,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), with an additional 20,000 GPUs to be added in the coming weeks. The announcement was not merely technical. It was strategic. It signalled that India is scaling up with intent and positioning itself firmly among the world’s leading AI powers.

What Is IndiaAI Mission?

The government launched the 'IndiaAI Mission' in March 2024, emphasising the concept of 'AI for All,' aligning with the vision to democratise the use of technology. This initiative aims to ensure that AI benefits all sectors of society, driving innovation and growth. India is building a different model, anchored in the Rs 10,300+ crore IndiaAI Mission, which is expanding access and enabling responsible AI for public good. Under the Mission, the existing 38,000-plus high-end GPUs have been made available at Rs 65 per hour, lowering compute barriers for startups, researchers, students and public institutions. At its core, this reflects a powerful belief. Technology must be democratised.

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There are seven core components of the mission:

  • AI compute capacity (providing thousands of GPUs)
  • Indigenous foundation model development
  • Dataset platform
  • Application development (in health, agriculture, education, etc.)
  • FutureSkills (skilling and training)
  • Startup financing
  • Safe and trustworthy AI (ethical use)
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Here Are Other Key AI Initiatives In India:

National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (#AIForAll): Recognising AI’s potential to transform economies and the need for India to
strategise its approach, the government mandated NITI Aayog to establish the National Program on AI, with a view to guiding the research and development in new and emerging technologies in 2018. In pursuance of the government's vision, NITI Aayog launched a three-pronged approach – undertaking exploratory proof-of-concept AI projects in various areas, crafting a national strategy for building a vibrant AI ecosystem in India and collaborating with various experts and stakeholders. The project was called National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (#AIForAll).

National Program on Artificial Intelligence: It is an umbrella program of MeitY, linked to the IndiaAI Mission. It focuses on data for AI, skilling, AI ethics and governance, compute, R&D, and a national AI centre.

National AI Portal (INDIAai): IndiaAI Mission covers computing power and supporting research. It helps startups and institutions create solutions that directly benefit people. The programme focuses on making AI open, affordable, and accessible, ensuring that innovation uplifts society as a whole.
BharatGen: BharatGen, also a part of the IndiaAI Mission, covers multilingual/multimodal models.

Apart from the above projects, several AI projects in different sectors are operational, such as AI in railways (tackling waiting lists), urban data exchange (IUDX), and COVID-era tools (e.g. Aarogya Setu, CO-WIN with AI elements).


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