Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a roundtable at his residence with 12 start-ups selected for the AI for All: Global Impact Challenge ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
- Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Minister of State Jitin Prasada attended the session, signaling formal government backing for the initiative.
- Modi urged development of an Indian AI model that is ethical, unbiased, transparent and grounded in strong data privacy principles under the banner of “Made in India, Made for the World.”
- He called for AI that advances indigenous content and regional languages and encouraged affordable, inclusive solutions and frugal innovation led from India.
- Participants showcased work spanning Indian-language foundation models, multilingual LLMs, speech and multimodal generative tools, 3D content, engineering simulations, materials research, analytics and healthcare, and they lauded India’s strengthening AI ecosystem.