The India AI Impact Summit 2026, held in New Delhi from February 16 to 21, concluded with significant announcements spanning AI model development, infrastructure expansion, and public engagement. The summit, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 19, drew delegations from over 100 countries and featured more than 300 exhibitors across thematic zones aligned with the summit’s pillars of People, Planet, and Progress. (en.wikipedia.org)
Among the key outcomes, Indian AI lab Sarvam AI unveiled new large language models with 30-billion and 105-billion parameters using mixture-of-experts architecture, alongside text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and vision models. The company also introduced Kaze smartglasses, its first hardware product, which was demonstrated by Prime Minister Modi. (en.wikipedia.org)
In parallel, Gnani.ai launched Vachana TTS, a text-to-speech model capable of cloning human voices across 12 Indian languages using just 10 seconds of reference audio. The government-backed BharatGen Param2 model—a 17-billion parameter multimodal model supporting 22 Indian languages—was also unveiled. (en.wikipedia.org)
On the infrastructure front, India announced plans to expand its AI compute capacity by adding over 20,000 GPUs to the existing 38,000 under the IndiaAI Compute Portal. Microsoft pledged to invest US$50 billion by the end of the decade to extend AI access to lower-income countries. (en.wikipedia.org)
The summit also achieved a Guinness World Record for the most pledges received for an AI responsibility campaign in 24 hours, with 250,946 valid pledges collected between February 16 and 17—far exceeding the initial target of 5,000. (en.wikipedia.org)
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 marked a milestone in global AI engagement, showcasing India’s ambition to build sovereign AI capabilities, foster inclusive innovation, and lead in responsible AI deployment.
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