India hosting global artificial intelligence summit

February 17, 2026

TL;DR

India is hosting the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, starting Monday.
The summit will feature twenty world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and tech leaders like Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman.
The theme is "welfare for all, happiness for all," focusing on human-centric AI progress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate the India-France Year of Innovation 2026 in Mumbai.
Maxim Oreshkin will lead the Russian delegation.
The event is expected to host over 250,000 visitors and 45 ministerial-level delegations.
Major tech companies have committed $68 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure investment in India up to 2030.
The summit addresses the accelerating pace of global AI adoption and its potential threat to jobs in India's IT sector.

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