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New Delhi: Ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to be held in India next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a Roundtable with the country's AI Start-Ups at his residence in Delhi.
The 12 Indian start-ups that have qualified for the AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge in the Summit attended the roundtable and presented their ideas and work. The meeting was attended by CEOs, heads, and representatives of those AI start-ups, including Avataar, BharatGen, Fractal, Gan, Genloop, Gnani, Intellihealth, Sarvam, Shodh AI, Soket AI, Tech Mahindra, and Zenteiq. Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Minister of State, Jitin Prasada, were also present during the meeting.
The start-ups work in diverse areas, including Indian language foundation models, multilingual LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-audio, and text-to-video, 3D content using generative AI for e-commerce, marketing, and personalized content creation.
The start-ups commended India’s strong commitment to an advanced AI ecosystem and highlighted the sector's rapid growth and vast future potential. They said that AI innovation and deployment are shifting towards India. The leaders said that India now offers a robust and enabling environment for AI development, firmly placing the country on the global AI map.
PM Modi, during the meeting, highlighted AI's importance in bringing about transformation in society. He noted that India will host the India AI Impact Summit next month, playing a major role in the technology sector, and how India is transforming with AI.
He emphasised that startups and AI entrepreneurs are the co-architects of India’s future and said that the country has immense capacity for both innovation and large-scale implementation. He added that India should present a unique AI model to the world that reflects the spirit of “Made in India, Made for the World.”
Focusing on the need for Indian AI models to be ethical and unbiased, PM Modi added that they should function on the principles of data privacy. He noted that India can promote affordable AI, inclusive AI, and frugal innovation globally, while also urging the promotion of indigenous content and regional languages.
