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Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed a roundtable with Artificial Intelligence startups and firms successful Delhi connected Thursday (January 8, 2026), up of the India AI Impact Summit successful February.
The twelve firms Mr. Modi met, which included Tech Mahindra and Sarvam AI, were the qualified firms successful the “AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge”. The submissions were invited past twelvemonth for startups that could “enable large-scale impact” crossed agriculture, education, healthcare, clime and finance.
Twenty selected teams, according to the challenge’s telephone for applications, volition beryllium capable to demo their enactment astatine the February summit, which the authorities has said would person upwards of 1 lakh attendees, with heads of authorities from France (which hosted the erstwhile AI Action Summit) and different countries visiting.
Talked AI with youngsters from the Indian StartUp world. It was a memorable and insightful interaction, successful which they shared their imaginativeness and enactment connected however India is transforming the satellite of AI. It is commendable however these StartUps are moving connected divers fields specified arsenic e-commerce,… pic.twitter.com/sKQizQaWKJ
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 8, 2026Mr. Modi “highlighted the value of artificial quality successful bringing astir translation successful society,” a connection by the Prime Minister’s Office said.
“He noted that India volition big the India AI Impact Summit adjacent month, done which the state volition play a large relation successful the exertion sector. He highlighted that India is making efforts to bring astir a translation with and leveraging AI.”
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of State for IT Jitin Prasada, and IT Secretary S. Krishnan were besides astatine the roundtable.
“These startups are moving successful a divers acceptable of areas including Indian connection instauration models, multilingual ample connection models, speech-to-text, text-to-audio and text-to-video; 3D contented utilizing generative AI for e-commerce, marketing, and personalized contented creation; engineering simulations, worldly probe and precocious analytics for data-driven decision-making crossed industries; healthcare diagnostics and aesculapian research, among others.”
Mr. Modi besides said that determination was a “need to guarantee that Indian AI models are ethical, unbiased, transparent, and based connected information privateness principles,” the PMO said. The different firms that were contiguous astatine the roundtable were Avataar, BharatGen (a afloat authorities funded task nether the Department of Science and Technology), Fractal, Gan, Genloop, Gnani, Intellihealth, Shodh AI, Soket AI, and Zenteiq.
