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The inaugural India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi marked a major milestone for the Global South, featuring a landmark 100 MW infrastructure partnership between Tata Group and OpenAI. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the MANAV ethical framework alongside the launch of BharatGen Param2, a 17-billion parameter model designed for 22 Indian languages.
India is accelerating its push for sovereign AI, aiming to replicate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of China's DeepSeek. By leveraging the $1.24 billion IndiaAI Mission, the country seeks to break its dependence on Western LLMs while fostering a competitive domestic ecosystem.
India is accelerating its push for indigenous large language models, drawing inspiration from the cost-efficient success of China's DeepSeek. The initiative aims to leverage the nation's massive developer base and the $1.25 billion IndiaAI Mission to achieve digital sovereignty and linguistic inclusion.