AI NewsAll the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

4:20 PM IST · February 20, 2026

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, which expects 250,000 visitors, will see Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in attendance. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is scheduled to deliver a speech with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday. Here are all the key updates from the event: Drop 12/14: Models, products, impact – today something different, very different. Launching Sarvam Kaze, our foray into getting our models into the your hands with our devices – designed and built here in India!pic.twitter.com/8RnqO16Idg

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