Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw addressing the media on the AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi
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India is set to launch its indigenous artificial intelligence models at the India AI Impact Summit, a high-profile global gathering that will bring the world’s most influential technology leaders, policymakers and researchers to New Delhi, marking the country’s most assertive push yet to shape the global AI agenda.
Scheduled from February 16 to 20, the summit is the largest AI meet to date and the first in the global series to be hosted in the Global South. The centrepiece will be the unveiling of home-grown foundational AI models. The government sees it as critical to technological sovereignty, as AI reshapes economies, labour markets and governance worldwide.
Tech Titans
Global tech heavyweights, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Gates Foundation chair Bill Gates, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano R Amon and Schneider Electric CEO Olivier Blum, are among those confirmed to attend. Sir Tony Blair, executive chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, will also participate.
India Inc will be represented by industry leaders Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Tata Group chair N Chandrasekaran, Bharti Enterprise founder Sunil Bharti Mittal, HCL chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, signalling the growing centrality of AI across sectors.
Top global researchers, including Prof. Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, Dr Yann LeCun of NYU, Prof. Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University, Dr Sara Hooker of Adaptation Labs and Anima Anandkumar of Caltech, will lend intellectual weight to the event.
AI Sovereignty
Under the IndiaAI Mission, domestic firms Sarvam AI and Soket AI are developomg large and small language models trained on Indian datasets, while BharatGen is being built as a multilingual, multimodal platform for applications in agriculture, healthcare and governance. Officials say the focus is on scale, inclusion and real-world deployment.
“This will be the fourth and the biggest AI summit anywhere in the world,” said Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, noting participation from nearly 100 countries, over 15 heads of State and government and more than 100 global CEOs. He said over 200 sector-specific AI models are expected to be launched during the summit.
With nearly $70 billion already flowing into AI infrastructure and plans to expand AI education across 500 universities, the summit signals India’s intent to move from being an AI market to an AI rule-shaper.
Published on January 30, 2026
