Sovereign AI Models
India's homegrown AI models launched under the IndiaAI Mission (₹10,000 crore initiative)
Two large language models trained from scratch in India. The 105B model outperforms DeepSeek R1 and Gemini Flash on key benchmarks. Uses mixture-of-experts architecture for efficient inference.
Text-to-speech model that clones human voices in 12 Indian languages using under 10 seconds of audio. Preserves tone, pitch, and speaking style across languages.
17-billion parameter multilingual model from IIT Bombay consortium. Open-source release on Hugging Face. Received ₹900 crore from IndiaAI Mission — the largest beneficiary.
Bangalore Development Authority becomes first government body to deploy Sarvam AI for Kannada-English translation of citizen feedback. Praised for natural, non-robotic output.
Big Tech Investments
Major infrastructure and expansion announcements from global AI leaders
Sundar Pichai announced a full-stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam with gigawatt-scale compute capacity and a new international subsea cable gateway under "America-India Connect" initiative.
TCS HyperVault partners with OpenAI as part of the $500B global Stargate Project. Starting with 100MW AI infrastructure, scalable to 1 gigawatt. OpenAI becomes HyperVault's first customer.
"OpenAI for India" initiative expands with new offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai (adding to Delhi). India is ChatGPT's largest market outside US with 100M+ weekly users. Free ChatGPT Go for all Indian users.
Anthropic opens first India office in Bengaluru's Embassy Golf Links. India revenue run rate doubled since October. 6% of global Claude conversations happen from India. Hiring across sales, policy, and engineering.
First-in-Asia launch to train 2 million educators and reach 200,000 schools by 2030. Part of commitment to skill 20 million Indians in AI. Partners with CBSE, NCERT, AICTE.
Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced new AI models launching in coming months. Vision for "personal superintelligence" — AI that knows your goals, interests, and helps with daily priorities.
Strategic Partnerships
AI integrations between global tech leaders and Indian enterprises
Conversational streaming with multilingual voice discovery. Ask for content recommendations in Indian languages. Live sports Q&A — ask for scores, highlights, player info during matches.
Pilot for conversational commerce using Claude AI. Order from Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto and pay via UPI — all in one chat. UPI Reserve Pay allows multiple payments without repeated PINs.
"First agentic stack" for business. Merchants can manage payments, settlements, disputes through natural language. Ask chatbots to reconcile transactions, schedule payments, flag delays.
Tata Group deploying ChatGPT Enterprise starting with hundreds of thousands of TCS employees. TCS using Codex for AI-native software development. First OpenAI Certification partner outside US.
India leads global GenAI enrollments with 4M+ sign-ups and 3 new enrollments per minute. 400+ Coursera employees in India. 3,500+ courses created in country. AI translation to Indian languages.
Free access to Photoshop, Acrobat, and Firefly AI for students across accredited Indian institutions. Content Creator Labs in schools. Partnership with NASSCOM FutureSkills Prime.
Product Launches
New AI products and platforms unveiled at the summit
AI-enabled intelligence layer for India's power sector. Real-time analytics for utilities, generators, traders, and regulators. Natural language queries for procurement, trading, grid analytics.
CEO Cristiano Amon: "The agent becomes the platform." AI agents will replace app-centric interfaces. 6G networks will be large-scale sensing and intelligence platforms, not just connectivity.
AI pioneer left Meta to start AMI Labs. Argues next AI revolution will be "world models" — systems that understand reality, not just language. "Your house cat is smarter than the biggest LLMs."
India among top 3 APAC markets. Helping enterprises move 70-80% of AI pilots to production in 2026-27. Focus on governance, security, data control without vendor lock-in.
Policy & Frameworks
Government initiatives and international commitments
Voluntary framework unveiled by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Global AI companies commit to publish anonymized usage data and test models for multilingual, local contexts.
India's push for open, collaborative AI development. Endorsed by AI pioneer Yann LeCun: "India has an important role to play. Modi has India moving in the right direction."
India: 100M+ weekly ChatGPT users (#1 outside US). 4x data analysis, 3x coding usage vs global average. 80% of messages from ages 18-34. Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu lead coding usage.
Key Insights & Quotes
Notable statements from industry leaders at the summit
"In AI, the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top. The resentment of white collar workers will lead to the train wreck of AI."
"The biggest AI opportunity lies in bridging the gap between LLMs and enterprises. People who understand how to use AI are astonishingly effective."
"The world cannot afford to let the digital divide morph into an AI divide. AI represents the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes."
"The building energy in India is quite remarkable. I've never seen a total amount of energy relentlessly attacking a problem across the entire stack as anywhere but here."
"There's no such thing as AGI. Your house cat is smarter than the biggest LLMs. The next revolution are systems that understand how the world works."
OpenAI ($500B) and Anthropic ($380B) CEOs avoided holding hands during the photo-op with PM Modi — a viral moment reflecting their intensifying rivalry.