Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched India as a major hub for artificial intelligence, built at home and used worldwide.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei had an awkward moment at a major AI summit, with the two CEOs of competing AI giants opting not to link hands.

On the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit, ET spoke with Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Ajay Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

India AI Impact Summit 2026: With speeches from PM Modi and French President Macron, the opening ceremony of the summit today aims to forge international collaboration on AI governance and innovation.

Amodei and Altman’s company have recently sniped at each other over OpenAI’s introduction of ads within its products.

From Sam Altman to Demis Hassabis, AI leaders gathered in India to speak about the future of the technology.

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Kyndryl’s chairman and CEO, Martin Schroeter, emphasised that while more than two-thirds of global organisations are investing in AI, and nearly 50% of them are struggling to achieve meaningful returns.