India AI Impact Summit Day 4 Live Updates: Mukesh Ambani Commits ₹10 Lakh Cr

The fourth day of the India AI Impact Summit saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi address global leaders and called to democratise artificial intelligence.

"AI is a transformative power. If directionless, it becomes a disruption; if the right direction is found, it becomes a solution," said the prime minister.

The day also saw tech titans–from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Daroi Amodei, to Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch—echo similar sentiments. They called for responsible guardrails to be established, but also nudged companies to have the "right infrastructure in place" so that they can use AI to manage specific business functions.

Meanwhile, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani committed a massive ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years to upgrade India's AI infrastructure, and vowed to bring down the cost of AI.

While the expo would remain live till Saturday, tomorrow will be the last day when it comes to panel discussions and speeches. Stay tuned for all the live updates from the summit here at AIM.

In a fireside chat at the India AI Impact Summit, alongside Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys and the architect of India’s digital public infrastructure, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that India may be uniquely positioned to turn frontier AI breakthroughs into a large-scale economic shift. 

He pointed to India’s scale as a strategic advantage. With a vast population and growing research ecosystem, the country could become a powerful engine for AI-driven medical breakthroughs.

“We’ll have to look at diffusion pathways to take this to everyone, and I think India will lead on that. That’s why I’ve always been saying that India should focus on becoming the use case capital of the world,” Nilekani added. 

Switzerland will host the 2027 edition of the AI Summit in Geneva, President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, announced on X.

In another post, he said, “Delighted to participate in the AI Impact Summit hosted by India in New Delhi. AI is shaping our future at an unprecedented pace. It is of vital importance that governments work closely together, exchange knowledge, and ensure that AI benefits everyone.” 

EY India has launched EY.ai Generative Studio, a platform that helps enterprises adopt agentic AI and move from idea to enterprise-grade deployment up to 10x faster. The studio supports secure, governed and scalable AI innovation and can operate on on-premises infrastructure to ensure data control and compliance.

The platform addresses challenges such as complex deployments, versioning, accuracy risks and regulatory requirements through a standardised framework, centralised guardrails and lifecycle management tools. It also includes pre-trained industry models, templates, persona libraries and agent workflows, along with dashboards that provide real-time visibility into usage and risk.

Prashant Garg, Technology Consulting Partner at EY India, said the studio will help organisations move “from basic chatbots to sophisticated agentic workflows”, in which AI agents automate information processing and decision-making tasks while humans make final decisions.

During the group photo op at the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was left in an awkward position standing beside rival Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when Big Tech leaders projected AI unity, holding hands and raising them together.

In an interview with PTI, he admitted that he was confused and didn't know what was happening. "I was sort of confused and didn’t know what I was supposed to do," Altman said.

“I was sort of confused, like [Prime Minister] Modi grabbed my hand and put it up, and I just wasn’t sure what we were supposed to be doing. I thought it was the open clock,” he added.

Amodei had quit OpenAI in 2021 due to differences with Altman.

Delhivery has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop AI-driven digital mapping and location intelligence solutions tailored to Bharat’s complex geography and non-standardised addressing systems.

At the core of the initiative is Delhivery’s plan to leverage NVIDIA accelerated computing, CV-CUDA, and NVIDIA Nemotron open models to build highly accurate, scalable, and locally contextual mapping capabilities.

These systems will be powered by Delhivery’s petabytes of proprietary logistics data accumulated over several years, enabling deeper insights into India’s uniquely fragmented address ecosystem.

Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman and venture capitalist, says, "Aadhaar allowed us to offer UPI, and there's no reason we can't use the same identity system to offer such services." He believes hard work has already been done here to collect data.

What he proposes is to establish a Section 8 non-profit company to build, operate, and transfer it into the Aadhaar ecosystem. This will help us adapt to specific Indian conditions, such as the depth of languages and differences in disease patterns.

He also proposes having every farmer a PhD-level agronomist, along with UPI-like service.

He adds,"A tutor that can gauge students, find and teach the gaps to students and make the current Diksha system much more useful and friendly." He proposes organising the Diksha system more effectively to align resources across all libraries.

In a light-hearted moment, Google CEO Sundar Pichai savoured the Monsooned Malabar Robusta blend of the Bharat GI Coffee at the India AI Impact Summit.

Bharat GI Coffee, an initiative of the Ministry of Commerce, promotes GI-tagged products, and houses coffees from multiple regions like Coorg and Araku Valley.

Other than the Malabar blend, other GI-tagged coffees being promoted include Chikmagalur Arabica Coffee, Bababudangiris Arabica Coffee, Coorg Arabica Coffee, Wayanad Robusta Coffee, and Araku Valley Arabica Coffee.



AuraML has launched AuraSim, a multimodal world simulation model that generates physics-ready, high-fidelity environments for robotics.

Built on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Cosmos, AuraSim is positioned as an infrastructure layer for the robotics industry, aiming to reduce the time and cost of developing physical AI systems.

The platform can build simulation-ready digital twins from diverse inputs, including text descriptions, floor plans, videos, depth maps, and point clouds.

"We need to decentralise to AI deployment. The first move for that is open-source. We collaborate with local ecosystems, institutions, to make sure languages make their way into our models," says Mensch.

Highlighting that countries need to go beyond the hype and look at what AI can do for our daily lives, Mensh said that AI is not about replacing human but giving them a way to delegate tasks, enhancing what serves them and about solving real problems.

He pointed out that a few companies deploy and own AI, but we need to ensure that nobody has excessive leverage to ensure the world remains stable.

The State Election Commission, Bihar has used AI based E-Voting in the Urban Local Body polls and is now preparing to expand the model for the next Assembly elections in next term.

Bihar introduced a secure mobile-based voting system aimed at solving one of the biggest challenges in elections ie voter exclusion.

Migrant workers, students living outside their constituencies, senior citizens, pregnant women, persons with disabilitiesand patients who are unable to visit polling booths were given an alternative: vote from their smartphones.

JioHotstar has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a ChatGPT-powered voice and text interface on its streaming platform, enabling users to discover content through natural-language conversations in multiple languages.

The companies said the integration uses OpenAI APIs to deliver real-time, context-aware recommendations at scale.

The feature replaces traditional keyword-based search with what the companies describe as multilingual cognitive search. Instead of browsing menus or typing titles, users can speak their intent, mood, or context to receive recommendations.

"We are opening a cyber defense operation centre in Bengaluru to detect and contain threats that have already started at the edge of the network," says Martin Schroeter, CEO of Kyndryl.

Schroeter highlighted that issues like lack of infrastructure, unpredictability of cyber attacks, lack of use of agentic AI, and skilled workforce must be addressed sooner. 

Kyndryl is already collaborating with several government bodies in India, including implementing agentic AI in Bengaluru International Airport to shift IT operations from reactive response to proactive resilience.

Meta is collaborating with the Indian government through its AI coach platform to provide data sets in ten major languages that can provide AI models to understand Indian languages and context.

"We are releasing new models this year with a first coming in the next couple of months. Our vision is personal super intelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you focus on doing," says Wang.

Public and private sector must come together to build AI through talent, energy, data and compute, Wang emphasised.

Microsoft's Rajiv Kumat tells AIM at the Summit that the real transformation in the AI world lies in how humans work alongside machines

AI, he argues, is transforming the technology stack “right from energy to the app layer”, describing a systemic shift rather than an incremental upgrade.

The cloud is no longer CPU-bound. It is GPU-boundand that changes everything. “It’s moving from a traditional cloud to an AI cloud.

Speaking at the India AI Summit, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said companies must “reinvest themselves” in the AI era rather than simply chase efficiency gains.

She emphasised that while AI is transforming business models, it also creates an opportunity to redesign organisations, reskill talent, and expand access to early-career jobs.

Sweet underlined the importance of protecting and growing entry-level opportunities, noting that building the next generation of talent is critical as enterprises adopt AI at scale.

Accenture, she said, plans to increase its intake of entry-level hires this year as part of its broader reinvention strategy.

Gates foundation is launching Advantage India for AI, an initiative that will bring innovators and philanthropist across India and the global south to advance AI for social good, says Ankur Vora, President of the Africa and India Offices and Chief Strategy Officer at the Gates Foundation.

Ankur Vora emphasises that the true test of AI is its ability to improve people’s lives. He explains that when AI tools are deployed correctly, they free up time for health workers, allowing them to save more lives.

Vora takes the stage after Bill Gates withdraws from delivering the keynote at the India AI Summit. According to a statement from the Gates Foundation, the decision is made to keep the focus on the Summit’s core priorities.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Adobe announced a strategic investment to accelerate AI-driven creativity and productivity for India’s next generation of talent. Adobe is enabling the next generation to be ready for AI-first careers by putting its industry-leading applications, such as Firefly, Photoshop and Acrobat, into the hands of students for free, via accredited higher education institutions across India.

The toolkit provides access to Adobe’s creativity and productivity software, along with curriculum, training, and credentials that will enable students to stand out upon graduation.

Google has introduced music generation in the Gemini app, rolling out its latest model, Lyria 3, in beta.

It enables users to create 30-second tracks using text prompts, images or videos.

The feature is rolling out on desktop and will expand to mobile in the coming days.

IIT Madras-incubated startup The ePlane Company has announced it will create a digital twin of its electric air taxi, e200x, and use the NVIDIA IGX platform for onboard computing.

The electric aircraft developer is building India’s first electric vertical take-off and landing air taxi using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. ePlane said it will use physics-based digital modelling to simulate aerodynamic interactions, flight conditions, autonomy systems, extreme weather and sensor failures before physical testing.

Standing by his earlier statement, Yann LeCun argued that while AI systems are undeniably powerful, they are not truly intelligent. He said that large language models function as sophisticated information-retrieval and pattern-generation systems, a natural evolution in how humans access and process information.

Talking about who is more intelligent, machines or humans, he said, "We’re not going to discover a single secret or measure progress by running a series of tests to see whether machines are more intelligent than humans.”

In his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that for AI progress, the world should focus on building data centres and compute capacity, invest in skilling, and solve real-world problems using AI.

He said there is a need for new tools and measurement systems for AI, and integration of data provision with linguistic diversity. 

Microsoft is on pace to spend $50 billion by the end of the decade to bring AI to the Global South, including a $17.5 billion investment in India announced earlier. Earlier this week, Microsoft launched the Elevate for Educators programme to help teachers equip students with the necessary skills.

Sam Altman noted that we are only a few years away from early versions of true superintelligence, adding that by the end of 2028, more intelligence will reside in data centres than outside them. He emphasised that India is well-positioned not only to develop AI but also to help shape its global direction.

Outlining three core beliefs, he said that the democratisation of AI is the best way to ensure humanity flourishes—strengthening liberty, democracy, and human agency while extending individual well-being. He described resilience as the central safety strategy, calling for broader thinking about how society adapts safely to powerful technologies.

At the same time, he acknowledged that the future of AI will not unfold exactly as predicted. With technology this transformative, people seek clear answers, but uncertainty is inevitable, and breakthroughs, he said, occur where technology and society intersect.

At the India AI Impact Summit, as Big Tech leaders joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the stage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had an awkward moment. The AI entrepreneurs refused to hold hands for a photograph.

Amodei had quit OpenAI in 2021 due to differences with Sam Altman. He stepped away after voicing concerns that OpenAI did not have a strong emphasis on safety and was innovating recklessly.

“You needed something in addition to just scaling the models up, which is alignment or safety. You don't tell the models what their values are just by pouring more compute into them,” he told Fortune in 2023.

OpenAI is set to deepen its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year. The expansion builds on its existing base in New Delhi and signals a stronger commitment to engaging with India’s fast-growing AI talent, startup, and enterprise ecosystem.

“Through OpenAI for India, we’re working together to build the infrastructure, skills, and local partnerships needed to build AI with India, for India, and in India,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement.

Qualcomm expanded into robotics computing, showcasing AI-powered humanoids and autonomous platforms, including its Dragonwing IQ-10 processor for advanced workloads.

Kerala-based iHUB Robotics unveiled its Daksha Generation 2 humanoid for enterprise and strategic deployments, claiming it is fully designed and built in India.

Kanpur’s xTerra Robotics presented the Svan M2 quadruped for construction-site monitoring. Firms including EY, Tech Mahindra and Wipro also displayed robotic dogs for hazardous industrial environments.

Even if strong foundation models are built, real impact will depend on meaningful use cases, Dario noted. Nandan said that technology diffusion is an entirely different ball game, pointing to the success of India’s UPI system as an example. “Diffusion is both art and science,” he said, highlighting the complexity of taking innovation to scale.

Nandan announced plans to establish 100 AI diffusion pathways across sectors by 2030 to accelerate adoption nationwide.

“If you can make agents work for people, it means greater inclusion,” Nandan said, pointing to agriculture and healthcare as key sectors where AI-driven agents can expand access, improve productivity, and deliver tangible benefits at scale.

Expressing a deep passion for advancing scientific discovery, he described AI as a force multiplier for human ingenuity, with artificial general intelligence on the horizon within the next five years.

He emphasised the need for a rigorous scientific approach to understanding these systems, along with strong guardrails to ensure they serve human intentions.

If developed responsibly, he added, AI can significantly advance science, medicine, human health and the broader human condition.

“If we navigate carefully, I’m positive that we will usher in a great new era,” he said.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, addressed the India AI Impact Summit 2026, outlining his vision for India’s AI-driven future. He highlights the need to build digital infrastructure for Viksit Bharat, supports emerging startup opportunities in the AI ecosystem, and predicts that India will become one of the world’s leading AI powers in the 21st century.

He announced that Jio will invest ₹10 lakh crore over the next seven years to accelerate India’s AI and digital infrastructure ambitions. He said Jio Intelligence will build India’s sovereign AI infrastructure, anchored by 1 GW of data centre capacity, starting in Jamnagar. Around 120 MW capacity is expected to come online in the latter half of 2026 to support large-scale AI training and scaling requirements.

The infrastructure will be powered by 10 GW of ready green energy, primarily solar, sourced from projects in Kutch and Andhra Pradesh. He added that an edge computing layer, deeply integrated with the Jio network, will enable responsive, low-latency and affordable AI services across the country. “Intelligence will live at the edge,” he said.

Jio Intelligence will be guided by a clear set of principles: advancing AI for deep tech and advanced manufacturing leadership; using AI as a force multiplier to boost productivity across sectors; building multilingual capabilities spanning all Indian languages; and embedding responsibility and security by design, with trust not treated as an afterthought.

He emphasised that AI will create jobs rather than eliminate them and stressed that the race is shifting from building the “best model to creating the strongest ecosystem." He plans to deepen partnerships with Indian enterprises, startups, and institutions such as IISc and the IITs, empower startups with affordable compute access, and collaborate with leading global technology firms as co-architects of a new AI century.

JioHotstar will harness AI to multiply creativity, enabling storytelling across multiple Indian languages and formats at unprecedented scale. 

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the India AI Summit in Delhi on India’s rapid technological transformation, AI was simultaneously at work behind the scenes.

His speech was translated live into several regional languages, and AI-powered sign language interpretation made the address accessible in real time, with the feeds later shared on social media.

Joined by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google CEO Sundar Pichai presented a full-stack AI strategy for India, spanning infrastructure, products, skilling, science and public services, alongside $60 million in new global grants.

He described India as one of the largest platforms for popular AI tools and a country positioned to deploy AI at scale. “For countries like India, AI presents a chance to leapfrog age-old gaps and create new opportunities,” he said. “Whether it’s making diseases more detectable and treatable.”

Pichai even met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss how Google is helping to infuse AI across India to improve healthcare, expand access to information in all languages, and support startups and agriculture.

Gnani.ai has launched Vachana TTS, a foundational text to speech model with zero shot voice cloning across 12 Indian languages, under the IndiaAI Mission. 

Vachana TTS is the second model released under Inya VoiceOS and is positioned for national-scale deployment. It supports Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese and Indian English.

The company said the model can be used for public announcements, emergency alerts, educational content, conversational AI agents and IVR systems.

Tata Group, TCS, and OpenAI have partnered to expand the deployment of artificial intelligence across enterprises, industries, and public-interest programmes in India and international markets.

Several thousand Tata Group employees will receive access to Enterprise ChatGPT to support internal productivity and innovation. TCS will use OpenAI’s Codex to improve software engineering throughput and code quality.

Under joint go-to-market initiatives, TCS will deploy, integrate, and scale OpenAI’s models and platforms for Indian and global enterprises.

The companies have also agreed to a multi-year collaboration to develop AI infrastructure in India through TCS’s HyperVault unit.

Fintech company Pine Labs has announced a collaboration with OpenAI by integrating OpenAI’s APIs directly into its AI-native infrastructure.

Pine Labs is engineering a Reasoning Layer for commerce, transforming its infrastructure into a dynamic system capable of understanding context and weighing probabilities, the company said in a statement.

"By combining our advanced reasoning capabilities with Pine Labs’ deep merchant infrastructure, we are helping to create a powerful engine for innovation that turns complex financial workflows into seamless, agentic experiences at scale,” said Oliver Jay, Managing Director, International, OpenAI. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the need for watermarking and clear source standards to bring trust to AI. He also noted that there needs to be a strong emphasis on child safety, with an emphasis on family guidance in AI development.

"Let's pledge that AI is developed as a global common good," he said at the summit.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi likened AI to GPS, saying that AI can give the tools for tech navigation, but humanity needs to decide which dire

The prime minister talked about India's 'MANAV' vision for AI development with moral and ethical systems, accountable governance, national sovereignty, accessibility and inclusivity, and valid and legitimate technology.

"We are entering an era where human and intelligent systems co-create, co-work, and co-evolve," he added.

President of France Emmanuel Macron hailed India's online payment system in his address to the India AI Impact Summit. He also spoke on the India Stack, calling it open and interoperable.

"Ten years ago, the world told India that 1.4 billion people could not be brought into the digital economy. India proved them wrong," he noted in his address.

He said that the future of AI will be built by those who combine innovation with responsibility and technology with humanity.

He urged coordinated global action to limit children’s access to social media and invited India to partner with France to advance stronger international safeguards.

“This is why in France, we are embarking on a process to ban social networks for children under 15 years old.”

AI leaders commit to New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments as a shared vision for inclusive and responsible AI use voluntarily adopted by AI organisations.

At the India AI Impact Summit, IT and Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw released the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments. He positioned the commitments as a shared vision for inclusive and responsible AI use voluntarily adopted by AI organisations.

The first commitment is advancing understanding of real-world AI usage through anonymised and aggregated insights to support evidence-based policymaking.

The second commitment is strengthen multilingual use case evaluations to ensure AI works effectively across languages, especially in the Global South.

Google chief Sundar Pichai said that with AI, humanity has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve lives. 

"We're on the cusp of hyper progress and new discoveries that can help emerging economies leapfrog legacy issues," he said at the India AI Impact Summit.

"No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI," he added.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei noted that AI will greatly grow the economic pie but it will lead to disruption.

He further said that India has a central role to play when it comes to balancing the opportunities and risks of AI. 

"We would like to work with India in testing the models for safety and security risks," he said.

Anthropic will also join the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitment, and assess how AI will impact jobs and economy.

At the India AI Impact Summit, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran announced that the Tata Group will partner with OpenAI to build the first 100 MW capacity data centre. It will later scale up the capacity to 1 GW.

Tata Group earlier partnered with semiconductor giant AMD to build an AI rack architecture using Tata's engineering, power and solution capabilities to create high-density AI capacity from India for global standards.

Chandrasekaran also announced that TCS and other Tata companies are building AI operating systems for companies and developing agentic solutions.

Amid the snowballing Galgotias University controversy, IT Secretary S Krishnan warned exhibitors at the India AI Impact Expo must only display innovations that they built themselves.

“Exhibitors must not display items that are not theirs,” IT Secretary S Krishnan was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

Krishnan strongly emphasised that the controversies should not overshadow the genuine and innovative work that is being showcased by several startups and institutions at the summit. 

Amid the embarrasment of Galgotias University displaying a Chinese robot as its own, Bengaluru startup General Autonomy showcased its own home-built quadruped robot, Param, on social media.

The robodog is powered by Nvidia Jetson GPU and actuators, which are the only non-Indian components.

The startup's post on X shows Param walking in Bengaluru traffic, automatically detecting obstacles, manoeuvring stairs, and crab walking.

The Gates Foundation has announced that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit today.

"After careful consideration, and to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit's key priorities, Mr Gates will not be delivering his keynote address," the Gates Foundation said in a post on X.

The Gates Foundation will be represented by Ankur Vora, president of the Africa and India offices.

The development follows Bill Gates earlier being temporarily removed from the India AI Impact Summit schedule, fuelling speculation over his attendance.

The Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been embroiled in a controversy over his alleged close ties with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Day 4 promises an action-packed lineup of tech luminaries and international dignitaries at the India AI Impact Summit, taking place at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

Big Tech titans are going to descend on the summit, with the likes of Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Alexandr Wang, Julie Sweet, Brad Smith, Nandan Nilekani, and many more set to look into the crystal ball and forecast what an AI future holds.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to officially inaugurate the summit and deliver a speech encapsulating India's AI journey and where it's headed. He will be accompanied by international dignitaries, including President of France Emmanuel Macron, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueteres, and Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof.