India Hosts AI Summit as Reliance, Others Pledge Multibillion-Dollar Buildouts

In February 2026, the government-led India AI Impact Summit 2026 was held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, where Reliance Industries, Adani, Tata Group and OpenAI unveiled large-scale AI infrastructure investments and the local startup Sarvam AI announced new foundation models. Prime Minister Narendra Modi positioned AI as a pillar of national strategy, stressing the build-out of "sovereign AI" for a multilingual, multicultural society of roughly 1.45 billion people and a push toward the Global South.