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Calling the AI Impact Summit a “landmark infinitesimal for India’s planetary enactment successful Artificial Intelligence”, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw connected Friday (February 20, 2026) said the acme attracted $250 cardinal investments successful AI infrastructure and saw much than 5 lakh visitors.
The acme ended connected Friday, but the expo volition stay unfastened till Saturday (February 21, 2026).
Mr. Vaishnaw said the acme besides got $20 cardinal successful heavy tech task commitments. “Now we volition instrumentality our IndiaAI Mission to the adjacent level, wherever we volition spell to a wholly caller level of [large language] models, a caller level of communal compute, and a caller level of safety,” helium said.
Delhi Declaration
Mr. Vaishnaw said a ‘Delhi Declaration’ for AI among respective countries volition beryllium unveiled connected Saturday (February 21, 2026). Over 70 countries person signed it, helium said, adding that helium hoped to surpass the tally achieved successful Paris past twelvemonth astatine the AI Action Summit. Ministerial delegations from immoderate countries are inactive taking a telephone connected signing the pact.
The Minister appeared to bespeak that some the U.S. and China person signed the declaration. “All the large countries person already signed,” helium said. “If you consciousness that idiosyncratic has not signed, you request not speculate connected that. All the radical who substance successful AI, they person each signed.”
The acme was held astatine the sprawling Bharat Mandapam, with much than 500 idiosyncratic sessions, and implicit 400 exhibitors with booths. It was held successful India aft akin summits successful the U.K., Paris, and Seoul, and was publicised heavily, with hundreds of pre-summit events implicit the past fewer months.
The lawsuit was importantly oversubscribed, with attendees overwhelming organisers successful the archetypal fewer days, starring to logistical issues that eased up aboriginal successful the week arsenic attendance became much manageable.
