AI Summit 2026 highlights: Vaishnaw promises smooth experience for visitors, says ‘war room’ monitoring issues

• Earlier today, G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant spoke at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and pushed for a framework of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Kant warned that the current wave of massive AI investments could result in a “highly inequal society” if the technology remains concentrated in the hands of a few.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the ongoing India AI Impact Expo 2026 as a powerful convergence of “ideas, innovation and intent.” “…It reaffirmed our commitment to harnessing AI responsibly, inclusively and at scale for human progress,” PM Modi said.

• Bihar deputy CM Samrat Choudhary said the state is leveraging artificial intelligence to contribute to the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’. Choudhary, along with Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan, JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha and Bihar Minister Dilip Jaiswal, visited the Bihar pavilion at the summit venue.

• Mariano Caucino, Argentina’s Ambassador to India, hailed New Delhi’s leadership in hosting the India AI Impact Summit. “It's a great success for the Indian government to be able to hold this important conference on a subject that everybody is talking about this in the world,” the ambassador told ANI news agency.

• The Gates Foundation clarified its stance after reports on Tuesday suggested that Bill Gates might not be attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026. A spokesperson for the foundation told Hindustan Times, “Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit. He will be delivering his keynote as scheduled.”

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen trying out a futuristic, spectacles-like AI device at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026. The device, called ‘Sarvam Kaze’, is an indigenous AI-powered wearable that doesn’t just sit on your face — it listens, understands, responds, and literally sees the world through your eyes.

• Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said India is poised to witness massive investment in artificial intelligence. “So far, in the coming two years, we should be seeing more than USD 200 billion investment across the five layers of the AI stack,” Vaishnaw said.

• Vaishnaw also apologised for any inconvenience the visitors and participants might have faced on Monday. He further urged feedback from visitors, saying there was a war room monitoring the issues at the summit.

• Vaishnaw announced plans to create ‘AI ka UPI’, a bouquet of trusted AI solutions. “We will be creating 'AI ka UPI', a bouquet of trusted solutions which will be presented as a UPI-like platform which will be available for people to build on,” Vaishnaw said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Minister of State for telecom Chandrasekhar Pemmasani on Tuesday said the history of India's transformation during the 21st century will begin with the moment the country made connectivity a fundamental choice.

“When historians write about India's 21st-century transformation, they will not begin with silicon chips or software code. They will begin with the moment India made a fundamental choice -- connectivity is not a luxury. Connectivity is sovereignty,” Pemmasani said during the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Union health minister J P Nadda on Tuesday launched two digital health initiatives during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.

These are the SAHI (Secure AI for Health Initiative) and BODH (Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI) initiatives.

Interoperable systems have been enabled across platforms and large-scale, consent-based health-data frameworks are being developed to empower citizens, PTI cited Nadda as saying pn Tuesday.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: The Centre of Policy Research and Governance (CPRG) Tuesday hosted ‘PadhAI 2.0: Reimagining the Indian Education System’ at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

The event focused on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in India's education ecosystem, ANI news agency reported.

The conclave brought together senior policymakers, institutional leaders, and industry experts to explore how AI is transforming governance, pedagogy, and learning outcomes across schools and higher education institutions.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur on Tuesday said artificial intelligence will reduce the cost of filmmaking and provide opportunities to new storytellers.

“In filmmaking, it will bring a lot of new filmmakers in because the cost of filmmaking is going to come crashing down with AI. That's what's going to happen,” Kapur told PTI news agency on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Founder of AI Safety Connect Cyrus Hodes said the core objective at the AI Impact Summit was to put the focus on AI safety, which he said “has been taken away.”

“The summit has taken a broader angle on discussions on actions, impact, and we are here to bring the focus back on safety,” he told PTI news agency.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Intel India Vice President & Managing Director Santhosh Viswanathan said that AI Impact Summit is “India's moment”, saying the country was not among followers of key technology.

“…We are going to be leading, building technology different from everywhere in the world,” Viswanathan told PTI news agency. “The energy here is palpable, it has so many stakeholders all coming to one place... it is exciting and energising...” the Intel India MD added.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: From a security point of view, over 15,000 personnel and 4,000 AI-enabled cameras have been deployed for the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam.

This has been done to maintain a discreet surveillance on suspected troublemakers, PTI cited a senior Delhi Police officer as saying on Tuesday.

“We are ensuring that no anti-national element tries to disrupt law and order, especially when high-profile dignitaries are visiting the national capital. Not even graffiti or posters should be able to disturb peace,” the officer told PTI.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), S Krishnan, said the Centre had invested in developing indigenous and sovereign artificial intelligence models to address concerns related to bias.

Krishnan said sovereignty is an important issue, adding that India needs to have AI models where no one else “has the kill switch, and it was always with us.”

“First and foremost is to address the issue of bias...Making sure that we have models which are based primarily on Indian data and data which is created in a multiplicity of Indian languages,” PTI news agency cited Krishnan as saying.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: After contradicting reports regarding his attendance, Gates Foundation said Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will attend the AI Impact Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

"Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit. He will be delivering his keynote as scheduled," PTI cited a spokesperson for his foundation as confirming in an email response.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, on Tuesday arrived in New Delhi to attend the ongoing India AI Impact Summit. Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal welcomed Jagdeo.

“Warm welcome to the Vice President of Guyana Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo. He was received by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on his arrival in New Delhi for the India-AI Impact Summit. The visit of Vice President Dr. Jagdeo will further strengthen the historic and multifaceted India-Guyana ties, rooted in strong people to people linkages,” the MEA said in a post on X.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: CynLr's CyRo robot, which debuted at its designated pavilion at the AI Impact Summit, is performing a task that has long been the "holy grail" of robotics, ANI news agency reported.

According to the report, the stationary robot, esigned to imitate the upper torso of a human, has a “baby-like intuitiveness”. CynLr co-founder Gokul Namakkal Arulsanmugam, speaking at the summit, said today's robots struggle with basic tasks, highlighting the limitations of robotics technology.

He spoke about building an intuitiveness in the robot, similar to a human baby. “A human baby will be able to go and pick an object without knowing what they are,” ANI cited Gokul as saying. “Unless and until you build that intuitiveness into a robot, they are not trainable, they are not AI-friendly,” he said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake departed for India on Tuesday to attend the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, PTI news agency reported.

Dissanayake will address the summit on Thursday, according to a press release by the government. He will also hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other world leaders during his visit, the statement said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: On some top techies not attending the AI summit, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the participation in the summit was a “personal choice.”

“Regarding some people not attending, this is a personal choice. I would not like to comment on it. Jensen Huang reached out to us, and he said that because of something really unavoidable...he has deputed his very senior executive to join us,” PTI news agency cited Vaishnaw as saying.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not attending the event citing unforeseen circumstances.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Union minister for electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said India is expected to add another 20,000 GPUs, in addition to the 38,000 already onboarded under the IndiaAI Mission.

Vaishnaw said this was being done with the aim of strengthening the country's AI compute infrastructure, ANI news agency reported. A GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a powerful computer chip which helps machines think faster, process images, run AI programs, and handle complex tasks more efficiently than a regular processor.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Minister of state (MoS) for science and technology and earth sciences Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said ethics will be a key determinant of how effectively artificial intelligence can be used in the health sector.

Speaking at a session during the AI Impact Summit, Singh cited the example of the government's sovereign multilingual AI engine BharatGen, PTI news agency reported. He said the present government is ready to come forward even at the formative stages of a new phenomenon.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: India has to translate its research into products and technology, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman of Axilor Ventures and Co-Founder of Infosys, said on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit on Tuesday.

“We don't have that kind of ecosystem and culture yet. We have small (a few) examples...” ANI cited Gopalakrishnan as saying.

He said that India would have to create a deep tech ecosystem. “We have to create that environment and if you do that, it will also attract capital from not just India but across the world,” Gopalakrishnan said, according to ANI. “We are already starting to see Indian startups attracting foreign capital. More and more deep tech startups will also attract foreign capital,” he added.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday assured visitors of a smooth experience at the India AI Impact Summit.

“We have a war room operating right now since yesterday, and any issue which is there, please report to us. We will definitely make efforts to make it more smooth and make it enjoyable for all of you,” he said.

Vaishnaw further apologised for any inconvenience the visitors and participants might have faced on Monday.

“If anybody has faced any problems yesterday, my apologies for that. We are working very hard, the entire team is working day and night and we will make all efforts to make sure it is enjoyable for all of you,” he said.

The union minister urged feedback, saying his team was “open-minded”. He further said that the response to the smmit was “phenomenal,” with 70,000 people attending on Tuesday.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Wipro Chief Strategy Officer Hari Shetty on Tuesday talked about ‘Health AI’, showcasing the Wipro Intelligence Solution.

“The idea is basically if we can do a remote diagnostic in a remote place, send that information to the Wipro brain as what we call it as the Wipro Intelligence Cloud, and then diagnose the problem, and make intelligent recommendations to a doctor to actually improve the efficiency of the doctor as well,” he said at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: AI for India, as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, does not just stand for artificial intelligence but also for all-inclusive intelligence, minister of state for health Anupriya Patel said on Tuesday.

Patel made these remarks during a session on 'Innovation to Impact: AI as a Public Health Game-Changer' at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at the Bharat Mandapam.

She said that when India speaks of AI in healthcare, it is not limited to sophisticated algorithms or the promise of precision, but is measured by the extent to which technology touches lives and addresses health inequities, PTI reported.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Artificial intelligence is not just for a “privilged few”, but can benefit “every farmer in every corner of the Global South”, Maharashtra Resident Commissioner R Vimala said Tuesday at the launch of a compendium of 26 ground-breaking studies.

At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Vimala highlighted that AI is already delivering measurable results for millions of smallholder farmers, whether it be in the form of smart necklaces for cows in Kashmir detecting infections or satellites predicting sugarcane sweetness with 95 per cent accuracy, PTI reported.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Qualcomm on Tuesday showcased its robotics technologies, including humanoid systems, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at the Bharat Mandapam in Delhi.

“Qualcomm is showcasing a full suite of robotics technologies under its Robotics System, including hardware, software, and compound AI integration,” PTI cited Shrestha Jain, Qualcomm's Marketing Lead for Robots and Automotive, as saying.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: BJP MP and former foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday called for a new governance structure to regulate emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI).

Shringla, while speaking at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, said institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are ill-equipped to handle futuristic technologies, PTI reported.

“You have a global governance structure, you have the United Nations, you have got the WTO. But none of them are geared up for the technology that represents the future, whether it is AI or whether it is the use of critical minerals, or whether it is futuristic technology,” Shringla said. The Rajya Sabha MP asked how AI could be used responsibly, and also highlighted its disruptive potential.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the rising risks posed by deepfake technology, saying, “I think we need a stronger regulation on deepfakes. It is a problem growing day by day."

"We need to protect our society from this harm. We have initiated a dialogue with the industry on this,” Vaishnaw said, emphasising the need for safeguards to ensure responsible AI use in India.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the rising risks posed by deepfake technology.

“I think we need a stronger regulation on deepfakes. It is a problem growing day by day. We need to protect our society from this harm. We have initiated a dialogue with the industry on this,” Vaishnaw said.