India AI Impact Summit Day 2 Live Updates

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Day 2 was far less chaotic than the inaugural day, even though it saw 3 lakh registrations. The summit had a steady focus on sovereign AI and LLMs, with Indian startups announcing pioneering initiatives and partnerships.

But now all eyes are on Day 3, with executives from Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and other Big Techs to take the spotlight.

Catch us here tomorrow for continued updates on all the developments from the summit.

India released AI Impact Casebooks focusing on Energy and Accessibility at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the publications compile AI use cases and best practices from across countries and have been prepared through collaboration among government ministries, international agencies, research organisations and foundations.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) have committed to invest ₹500 crore to accelerate India’s AI ecosystem.

As part of the programme, the Impact AI PitchFest, supported by the IVCA, provided a structured platform for AI founders to present solutions to leading venture capital investors.

Eternal Limited has announced a partnership with OpenAI to expand AI deployments across its commerce and ecosystem platforms, including Zomato, Blinkit, District, Hyperpure, Feeding India and its AI-native venture Nugget.

Internally, Eternal is considering integrating OpenAI’s coding models, including GPT-5.3-Codex, into Stitch, its internal automation and developer orchestration platform.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India's digital infrastructure is a public good that allows innovation to flourish on top of a common base layer.

"When AI is layered onto this foundation, governance can become far more responsive and efficient. AI can improve welfare targeting, strengthen fraud detection, enable predictive maintenance of infrastructure, support urban planning, and enhance transparency in public systems," he told ANI.

The Bihar government has signed an MoU to set up the Bihar AI Centre of Excellence. According to the official statement, the state government has signed MoUs worth ₹468 crore at the India AI Impact Summit, including ₹250 crore for setting up a research park at IIT Patna.

At the summit, EY showcased a robot dog, named EY Scout, designed as a companion for personnel working in hazardous industrial environments such as oil and gas facilities, offshore rigs, and mines. 

Subramanian Ganesh, Assistant Director - Robotics at EY, told AIM, "With EY Scout, when an alert is triggered—for instance, a pressure anomaly—instead of sending a person into a hazardous area, the robot can be deployed."

"The broader vision is a coordinated ecosystem of robots—quadrupeds, drones, wheeled units and even humanoids—deployed according to terrain and task, all powered by a shared intelligence layer tailored to specific client requirements," he added.

Cashfree Payments has launched Cashfree Here, positioning it as India’s first payments extension designed specifically for AI applications. Announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the solution enables businesses to accept UPI and passkey-based biometric card payments directly within conversational interfaces such as ChatGPT and Claude.

Tech billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla predicted that with rapid advancements in AI, people may not even need to work by 2050. He asserted that AI may eliminate large sections of white-collar employment.

This follows Khosla's comments on Day 1 of the India AI Impact Summit, when he predicted that IT services and BPOs will “almost completely disappear” within five years due to AI tools.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Qualcomm showcased a full robotics portfolio. It also launched Dragonwing IQ-10, Qualcomm's first dedicated robotics processor targeting premium robotics computing for AMRs and full-sized humanoids.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, apologised to attendees and startup founders who faced problems yesterday.

Several attendees expressed on social media that, though the event had a stellar line-up, they faced issues when it came to registrations, internet access, online payments, and crowd control.

Meanwhile, NeoSapien CEO and Co-founder Dhananjay Yadav shared on X that his wearables were stolen. Also, Bolna AI founder Maitreya Wagh shared that he was unable to access his own booth.

Alongside Param2 17B—a sovereign multilingual AI model built to operate across 22 Indian languages—BharatGen launched Patram, described as India’s first vision-language document foundation model, designed to unlock Indic documents and power the next phase of Indic document intelligence.

Union IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said there's a need for a stronger regulation on deepfakes. "It is a problem growing day by day. We need to protect our society from this harm," he said at the India AI Impact Summit.

Notably, the Union government recently introduced the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026. The rules mandate social media platforms to take down deepfake content within two hours of a complaint.

At the summit, Union IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced plans to launch a bouquet of ready-to-use AI solutions in key sectors. These will be built on a UPI-like platform, which will be available for free for people to build on.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, said India should expect investments over $200 billion over the next two years across the five layers of the AI stack.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Gnani.ai is set to unveil Inya VoiceOS, a new voice-to-voice foundational model. Inya VoiceOS enables end-to-end spoken intelligence by operating directly in acoustic and semantic space, eliminating the need for intermediate speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines. 

In a conversation with AIM, Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Principal Investigator and Board Member at BharatGen, said that its sovereign AI models are meeting the benchmarks, and will be useful to industry, academia, and government. He now hopes to expand the core team.

During the India AI Impact Summit, Eros Innovation unveiled Eros Universe, an app aimed at the creator economy that utilises AI, which it describes as the first official application of culturally trained AI systems developed in India.

After the Microsoft co-founder's name was removed from the list of speakers, the Gates Foundation has now confirmed that Bill Gates will attend the India AI Impact Summit. Dismissing media reports, the foundation said that Gates will deliver his keynote as scheduled.

BharatGen, a multimodal LLM project being funded by Department of Science and Technology, has launched several sovereign AI models in the presence of Dr Jitendra Singh, MoS (I/S), Science and technology. BharatGen has launched Shutram, India's first LLM based automatic speech recognition platform; Shhoktam, a text-to-speech model; and Patram 2, a vision-language model for document understanding.

At the summit, G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant highlighted a significant disparity in how LLMs are trained, arguing that AI must move beyond English-centric models. "I mean, if you look at OpenAI, ChatGPT, we are providing more data than the US—33% more data than what the United States of America do," Kant said in a panel discussion.