Updated on: Feb 19, 2026 1:45:43 PM IST

AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the Opening Ceremony of India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Day 4 of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi kicked off on Thursday with an opening address from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In his address, the prime minister stated that while some fear artificial intelligence, India sees the future in it and will be leading the AI revolution.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 is being held at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It is the first AI Summit to be held in the Global South. The previous sessions were organised in the UK, South Korea, and France,
Along with PM Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani were among the keynote speakers at the summit.
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and Gates Foundation Chair, was also expected to be present at the summit. However, based on a statement from the Gates Foundation, it was announced that Bill Gates will no longer be attending the summit.
PM unveils MANAV vision for AI
Speaking at the AI Summit 2026 opening ceremony, PM Modi revealed that India will be focusing on its AI development with the MANAV vision. This vision will allow AI to be grown and developed ethically and responsibly.
The prime minister added that AI is not just about intelligent machines but about enhancing human potential. “AI is making machines intelligent and, at the same time, it is multiplying human capabilities many times over,” he said. “The real question today is not what AI can do, but what humans can do with it.”
Macron praises India’s digital transformation
Coming from Mumbai, French President Emmanuel Macron praised India’s digital transformation.
“10 years ago, a street vendor in Mumbai could not open a bank account. No address, no papers, no access and today the same vendor accepts payments on his phone,” Macron remarked, illustrating the scale of financial inclusion achieved through digital means.
President Macron further emphasised that India has set a unique precedent that remains unmatched globally.
“India built something that no other country in the world has built. A digital identity for 1.4 billion people. A payment system that now processes 20 billion transactions every month. A health infrastructure that has issued 500 million digital health IDs. Here are the results. They call it the India Stack Open Interoperable Sovereign,” he said.
Jio vows to lead AI growth in India, to invest ₹10 lakh crore
Mukesh Ambani has vowed an investment of up to ₹
10 lakh crore”> ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years to build India’s AI ecosystem.
Delivering his address at the AI Summit, the Reliance Chairman said that Jio Platforms with Reliance Industries will invest ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years, starting this year.
“This isn’t a speculative investment. It is not for chasing valuation. This is patient, disciplined nation-building capital,” he added.
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The India AI Impact Summit 2026 is being held at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It is the first AI Summit to be held in the Global South. The previous sessions were organised in the UK, South Korea, and France,
Along with PM Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani were among the keynote speakers at the summit.
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and Gates Foundation Chair, was also expected to be present at the summit. However, based on a statement from the Gates Foundation, it was announced that Bill Gates will no longer be attending the summit.
PM unveils MANAV vision for AI
Speaking at the AI Summit 2026 opening ceremony, PM Modi revealed that India will be focusing on its AI development with the MANAV vision. This vision will allow AI to be grown and developed ethically and responsibly.
The prime minister added that AI is not just about intelligent machines but about enhancing human potential. “AI is making machines intelligent and, at the same time, it is multiplying human capabilities many times over,” he said. “The real question today is not what AI can do, but what humans can do with it.”
Macron praises India’s digital transformation
Coming from Mumbai, French President Emmanuel Macron praised India’s digital transformation.
“10 years ago, a street vendor in Mumbai could not open a bank account. No address, no papers, no access and today the same vendor accepts payments on his phone,” Macron remarked, illustrating the scale of financial inclusion achieved through digital means.
President Macron further emphasised that India has set a unique precedent that remains unmatched globally.
“India built something that no other country in the world has built. A digital identity for 1.4 billion people. A payment system that now processes 20 billion transactions every month. A health infrastructure that has issued 500 million digital health IDs. Here are the results. They call it the India Stack Open Interoperable Sovereign,” he said.
Jio vows to lead AI growth in India, to invest ₹10 lakh crore
Mukesh Ambani has vowed an investment of up to ₹10 lakh crore”> ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years to build India’s AI ecosystem.
Delivering his address at the AI Summit, the Reliance Chairman said that Jio Platforms with Reliance Industries will invest ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years, starting this year.
“This isn’t a speculative investment. It is not for chasing valuation. This is patient, disciplined nation-building capital,” he added.
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Feb 19, 2026 1:45:43 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: OpenAI’s Altman says world ‘urgently’ needs AI regulation
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Sam Altman, head of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, said that the world “urgently” needs to regulate the fast-evolving technology.
An organisation could be set up to coordinate these efforts, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said.
“Democratisation of AI is the best way to ensure humanity flourishes,” he said on stage, adding that “centralisation of this technology in one company or country could lead to ruin”, he said at the Delhi AI Summit 2026.
Feb 19, 2026 1:21:01 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Need to create a roadmap for responsible AI, says Modi at plenary session
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Speaking at the Leaders’ Penary Session at the Indian AI Impact summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi caled for world leaders to create a roadmap for responsible AI..
“We should come together to create a roadmap for responsible impact of AI,” he said. The prime minister further added that AI can be converted into an opportunity.
“If we look at history, humanity converted every disruption into new opportunity; we have same opportunity and must convert it into progress,” said Modi.
Feb 19, 2026 1:08:08 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Need to use AI to solve the problems in the Global South, says Microsoft vice chairman
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit, Microsoft Vice Chairman Brad Smith called on the need to use artificial intelligence in the Global South to address the problems in the Global South.
Feb 19, 2026 1:04:13 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: ‘India well-positioned to led in AI,’ says Sam Altman
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: While talking about how important India is for ChatGPT and the progress it has made in AI, Altman said, “One and a hundred million people in India use ChatGPT every week. India is also the fastest growing market now for CodeX. India, the world’s largest democracy, is well-positioned to lead in AI not just to build it but to shape it and decide what our future is going to look like”.
Feb 19, 2026 12:58:06 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Sam Altman says ‘incredible to India’s leadership and advanced AI’
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed the AI Summit on Thursday and said that it was “incredible to India’s leadership and advanced AI”.
“It is striking how much progress India has made in its mission to put AI to work for more people in more parts of the country. And India’s leadership in sovereign AI… has been great to watch”.
Feb 19, 2026 12:49:20 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Wipro’s Rishad Premji addresses AI Summit
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Wipro’s executive chairman Rishad Premji addressed the AI Summit on Thursday and said, “Once in a generation a technology emerges that doesn’t just change what we can do, but truly changes what we must do. AI for me is certainly that technology”.
Feb 19, 2026 12:36:44 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: India will be powerhouse for AI, says Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, while speaking at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, said that India will be a powerhouse for AI.
“India will be powerhouse for Artificial Intelligence across the world,” he said, echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that New Delhi will be leading and shaping the AI revolution.
Feb 19, 2026 12:27:39 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Summit at Bharat Mandapam brings Delhi to a standstill

AI Summit 2026 LIVE: The India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi has brought traffic snarls and disruption to the national capital of 30 million people. Throughout the week, traffic disruptions have been reported across Delhi. However, on Thursday, VIP and VVIP movement resulted in road closure near Bharat Mandapam, adding to the chaos.
Feb 19, 2026 12:02:09 PM IST
AI Summit 2026 Live: Jio, Reliance vow ₹10 lakh crore investment towards AI over next 7 years.
AI Summit 2026 Live: Mukesh Ambani has announced that Jio, together with Reliance, will be investing ₹10 lakh crore over the next 7 years, starting this year, to build AI.
Speaking at the AI Summit in New Delhi, Ambani added that the investment will contribute to patient, discipline national building capital.
Feb 19, 2026 11:47:21 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Ambani predicts India will be an AI powerhouse.
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani has predicted that India will emerge as one of the greatest powers in the world in the 21st century
“No country can match India’s strength in democracy, AI harvest, and infrastructure,” Ambani added.
Feb 19, 2026 11:41:18 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: AI is the mantra, says Ambani
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Delivering his keynote address, Reliance Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has stated that artificial intelligence is the key mantra for technology these days.
Feb 19, 2026 11:40:08 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Sessions lined up for Day 4
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: As per the official website for the India AI Impact Summit, Day 4’s sessions include a keynote address by Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani.
Along with Ambani, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises; Shantanu Narayen, Chairman and CEO, Adobe; Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic; Rishad Premji, Executive Chairman, Wipro
and Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, are expected to address the summit in Delhi today
Feb 19, 2026 11:19:08 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Vaishnaw introduces New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Frontier AI companies, along with India’s own innovators, have committed to advancing understanding of real-world AI usage to support policies on various issues, including jobs, with multilingual and contextual evaluations under the ‘New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments’, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.
He added that under the ‘New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments’, “leading frontier AI companies, along with India’s own innovators such as Sarvam, Bharatjan, Yani and Soket, have come together to make a set of voluntary commitments that reflect a shared vision for inclusive and responsible AI”.
“This initiative positions India at the forefront of building a Global South-led perspective on AI governance, one that balances innovation with equity and real-world impact,” the minister said.
Feb 19, 2026 10:53:15 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: India has talent, policy clarity and energy for AI, says PM
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Speaking at the AI Impact India Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India sees the future in artificial intelligence, adding that the country has the “talent, energy and policy clarity” for the same.
Feb 19, 2026 10:46:08 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: PM unveils MANAV vision for artificial intelligence
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revealed the MANAV vision for artificial intelligence at the AI Impact Summit. This vision would lay out a human vision for technology as follows –
M – moral and ethical systems
A – accountable governance
N – national sovereignty
A – accessible and inclusive
V – valid and legitimate
Feb 19, 2026 10:42:42 AM IST
AI Summit 2026 LIVE:PM Modi calls for the democratisation of articial intelligence
AI Summit 2026 LIVE: During his remarks at the AI Summit 2026, PM Modi called for the democratisation of artificial intelligence. Stating that the benchmark for AI development must be “Welfare and happiness for all,” the Prime Minister added that AI needs to be given an open sky while the reins of the commands stay with humans.
Feb 19, 2026 10:36:22 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: India makes new tech and uses it to its full potential, says Modi
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Speaking at the India AI Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made new technology, which is then used and utlised to its fullest potential in the country.
Feb 19, 2026 10:26:09 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Macron calls for strict measures on digital abuse, social media curbs for children
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: French President Emmanuel Macron has called for stricter measures on digital abuse and social media curbs for children.
Macron’s remark comes after a concerning trend took over X where AI chatbot Grok was asked to generate sexual images of women and minor girls.
Apart from digital abuse, Macron also called for social media curbs, especially for children.
“We must protect our children, especially from content online which is legally forbidden in the real world,” said Macron.
Feb 19, 2026 10:20:41 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Macron praises UPI, says India built a system no other country has
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: French President Emmanuel Macron has praised India’s digital payment system – UPI. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit at Delhi, the French president stated that with the UPI system, India has built something no other country has.
UPI is also available in France since 2024. The service was introduced at the Eiffel Tower, allowing tourists to make seamless payments in Indian Rupees.
Feb 19, 2026 10:13:25 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Emmanuel Macron takes the stage
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: French President Emmanuel Macron is on three-day visit to India. After wrapping up his trip to Mumbai, the French President is now in New Delhi for the AI Summit in Bharat Mandapam.
Feb 19, 2026 10:05:55 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: UN Chief Guterres hails India for organising first AI summit in Global South
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed India for holding the first-ever AI summit in the Global South. His remarks come as the UN chief highlighted that AI belongs to everyone and cannot stay in the hands of a few select countries or billionaires.
Feb 19, 2026 9:58:32 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes stage
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Google CEO Sundar Pichai is among the keynote speakers on Day 4 of the AI Impact summit in India. The Alphabet head highlighted the base of growth and change in India
Feb 19, 2026 9:54:23 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Anthropic CEO highlights India’s central role in AI development
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei while delivering his keynote address at the AI Impact Summit highlighted India’s central role in the development of artificial intelligence.
As per Amodei, India plays a key role in understanding the opportunity AI provides as well as the risks that come with the development of artificial intelligence.
Feb 19, 2026 9:51:35 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dario Amodei, N Chandrasekaran take the stage
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: The event began with opening remarks and a welcome address by Union Minister of Electronics & IT Ashwani Vaishnaw.
After Vaishnaw, keynote remarks were by delivered by N Chandrasekaran (Chairman, Tata Sons). At the moment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is on the stage.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and French President Emmanuel Macron will also address the summit.
Feb 19, 2026 9:44:54 AM IST
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: PM Modi with world leaders at Delhi Summit
AI Impact Summit 2026 live updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat with world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, among others at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ahead of his address.
