PM Modi addressed the AI Impact Summit 2026, unveiling the MANAV vision and urging for democratisation and ethical use of AI.

India’s AI summit was meant to showcase the country’s potential, but controversy and Gates’s exit stole the spotlight.

"This MANAV vision of India will become an important link for the welfare of humanity in the AI-based world of the 21st century," Modi said, presenting the framework not as India's unilateral declaration but as its contribution to a global conversation that is still being shaped.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched his country as a central player in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, saying it aims to build technology at home while deploying it worldwide.

PM Modi described the interaction as fruitful, highlighting conversations around strengthening cooperation in artificial intelligence, advancing supercomputing capabilities, and expanding investments in data centre infrastructure in India.

In impactful speeches at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron found rare and emphatic common ground - not on compute infrastructure or model benchmarks, but on the vulnerability of children in an age of algorithmic abundance.