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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday (February 20, 2026) discussed the imaginable of harnessing artificial quality exertion successful assorted sectors similar agriculture, biology protection, and promoting higher acquisition successful parent tongue, among others, with CEOs of AI and deeptech startups.
India AI Summit 2026 Day 5 updates connected February 20, 2026
CEOs and founders of 16 AI and deeptech startups presented their ideas and enactment astatine a roundtable gathering with the Prime Minister.
Mr. Modi underscored the request for beardown information governance, cautioned against misinformation, and urged the improvement of solutions tailored to India's needs, said a connection from Prime Minister's Office.
Referring to UPI arsenic a exemplary of elemental and scalable integer innovation, helium expressed assurance successful Indian companies and encouraged spot successful home products.
He besides spoke astir expanding backstage information successful the abstraction assemblage and noted beardown capitalist involvement successful Indian startups.
Mr. Modi discussed the imaginable of harnessing AI exertion successful assorted sectors similar successful agriculture and biology protection, including monitoring harvest productivity and fertilizer usage to safeguard ungraded health.
Stressing the value of promoting Indian languages and culture, helium called for expanding the AI tools for higher acquisition successful parent tongue.
Mr. Modi besides congratulated innovators for taking bold risks and gathering impactful solutions.
In healthcare, the PMO said they usage AI for precocious diagnostics, cistron therapy, and businesslike diligent grounds absorption to widen prime attraction to the past mile.
In agriculture, they leverage geospatial and underwater quality to boost productivity and assistance negociate clime risks.
The radical besides included ventures focused connected cybersecurity, ethical AI, space, societal empowerment done vernacular entree to justness and education, and modernising bequest systems to fortify endeavor productivity.
"Together, they bespeak an ecosystem addressing section needs portion gathering planetary enactment successful AI-driven innovation," the connection added.
It further said AI startups praised India's sustained propulsion to fortify its artificial quality ecosystem.
"They highlighted the sector's accelerated enlargement and immense untapped potential, noting that the planetary momentum of AI innovation and deployment is progressively shifting toward India," it said.
The startups noted that the state present offers a supportive and dynamic situation for AI advancement, firmly establishing its beingness connected the planetary AI landscape.
The participants besides lauded the India AI Impact Summit, describing it arsenic a reflection of the country's increasing stature successful shaping the planetary conversations astir AI.
The roundtable gathering was attended by CEOs and founders of Abridge, Adalat AI, BrainSightAI, Credo AI, Eka Care, Glean, Innogle, Invideo, Miko, Origin, Prophaze, Rasen, Rubrik, SatSure, Supernova and Sypha AI.
Principal Secretary P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary-2 Shaktikanta Das and Minister of State Jitin Prasada were besides contiguous during the meeting.
