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February 20, 2026
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
India is hosting a four-day AI 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.
TL;DR
- India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit to attract AI investment, attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech.
- India has earmarked $1.1 billion for its state-backed venture capital fund to invest in AI and advanced manufacturing startups.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted India's significant user base for ChatGPT, with over 100 million weekly active users.
- Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Indian AI startup Neysa for $600 million.
- Vinod Khosla predicted that AI could significantly disrupt IT services and BPO sectors within five years, urging young Indians to focus on selling AI products and services.
- AMD is collaborating with TCS to develop rack-scale AI infrastructure.
- Anthropic is opening its first office in India in Bengaluru and partnering with Infosys to deploy Claude models.
- Adani Group plans to invest $100 billion by 2035 to build AI data centers powered by renewable energy.
- Cohere Labs launched a family of multilingual models with open weights.
- OpenAI is opening two new offices in India (Bengaluru and Mumbai) and partnering with the Tata group to deploy 1 gigawatt of compute.
- India aims to attract over $200 billion in AI infrastructure investment in the next two years.
- Indian AI startup Sarvam released new open-sourced models and announced partnerships to deploy AI models to devices.
- BharatGen released a 17 billion parameter model, Param 2, supporting 22 languages.
- JioHotstar will use ChatGPT for content discovery and conversational search.
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