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India can lead human revolution through responsible AI, says Vishal Sikka

India can lead a new human revolution powered by purposeful and responsible AI (artificial intelligence) that empowers "a billion entrepreneurs" not just to earn a living, but to create meaningful lives, Vianai founder and CEO Vishal Sikka said on Thursday. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Sikka, former CEO of IT giant Infosys, highlighted astonishing productivity gains from AI, its limitations and responsible usage. He said that AI represents a historic opportunity, and India has previously transformed connectivity and food security within a generation. "To build the next generation of it (AI)... We can be on our way to a human revolution. Powered by AI, good AI, purposeful AI-- where every one of us-- a billion entrepreneurs-- is not just making a living, but is making a life -- not some artificial life or some artificial general life, but our own life and the life of others, and that would be so much fun to do," Sikka said. The Indian-American entrepreneur said that

Serge Raffa of Allianz India praises ethical, inclusive AI at India summit

Raffa said the scale of the event exceeded expectations, noting strong participation from companies and startups showcasing innovations across sectors

Philips CEO Roy Jakobs hails India's potential as 'AI Powerhouse'

Jakobs said he believes India should be a global AI powerhouse, highlighting its strong software talent and 97 years of Philips' presence, positioning the country to lead AI development

India well positioned to lead, shape future of AI: OpenAI's Sam Altman

Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Sam Altman said more than 100 million people in India use ChatGPT every week and that the country is well-positioned to lead the future of AI

India has a central role to play in shaping AI: Anthropic CEO Amodei

At the India AI Impact Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says India will shape AI's global trajectory, balancing transformative economic gains with risks of misuse and displacement

Why Sarvam's new 105B model marks a shift in India's sovereign AI ambitions

Sarvam's 105B model is its first fully independently trained foundation model, addressing criticism of its earlier Mistral-based system and strengthening India's position in the global AI race

RIL smartly deploying cash war chest to ride AI boom; analysts remain bullish

Meanwhile, at the bourses, in the last one year, RIL stock has outperformed the market by rising nearly 17 per cent compared to the 12 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 index, data shows

JioHotstar, OpenAI roll out ChatGPT-powered multilingual voice discovery

Partnership introduces multilingual, AI-driven voice discovery across live and on-demand content, enabling viewers to find and engage with stories through natural conversation

Reliance to invest ₹10 trn in 7 years to reduce intelligence cost

Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani says Jio and Reliance will invest ₹10 trillion over seven years to lower the cost of intelligence and build India's sovereign compute capacity

AI Summit: PM Modi bats for democratisation of AI, making it human-centric

At the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, the Prime Minister said AI must remain human-centric and inclusive, warning that directionless use could turn a transformative force into disruption

Watch Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at the India AI Impact summit 2026

Speaking before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and global leaders, Pichai said AI represents the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes — but its promise is neither automatic nor guaranteed. Watch the

Govt working to upskill, reskill IT workforce amid AI challenges: Vaishnaw

The government is aware of the challenges that the Indian IT industry is facing due to artificial intelligence and is working with academia to upskill and reskill talents, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. During his welcome address at the inaugural session of India AI impact Summit 2026, Vaishnaw said that the Prime Minister, in the Union Budget, has announced a very big policy shift aimed at attracting world's data to India, to reside in India, to be processed here and to deliver high-value services to the world. "We are also conscious of the challenges which are facing our IT industry and to mitigate it we are working with the industry and academia to upskill, reskill and to build a new talent pipeline for this new intelligence age," Vaishnaw said. He said the Prime Minister has always shown commitment towards clean energy, and India at present has more than 50 per cent of the power generation capacity from the clean sources. "Our visionary Prime Minister has .

India central to AI's future as risks and opportunities grow: Anthropic CEO

Highlighting India's significance in global AI development, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that technologies pioneered in India have historically set a standard for the global south

Tata signs OpenAI as 1st customer for data centre under Stargate initiative

The deal is a major boost for TCS, which in a strategic shift last year ‌disclosed plans to invest up to $7 billion in a 1 gigawatt data centre unit in India

India's 'nice framing' of AI as public policy issue: TBI Country Director

garwal said India has set the standard in hosting an AI summit by looking at it as an opportunity to bring tangible impact

EPAM repositions India as co-innovation hub for life sciences, healthcare

EPAM bets on India as global co-innovation hub for AI-driven life sciences and healthcare expansion

AI startup Sarvam launches two made-in-India large language models

Sarvam launches 30B and 105B parameter indigenous LLMs trained on Indian languages, positioning India closer to a sovereign, voice-first AI ecosystem

Global pharma uses AI to speed drug timelines, but adoption remains uneven

Pharma leaders at BioAsia said AI is accelerating discovery and documentation, doubling pipelines at some firms, though its impact on clinical costs and timelines remains uneven

BharatGen unveils Param2 17B multilingual MoE model under sovereign AI push

BharatGen has introduced Param2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual MoE model optimised for Indic languages, strengthening India's sovereign AI capabilities and digital mission

NPCI, Nvidia tie up to boost sovereign AI infra for payment ecosystem

NPCI will use Nvidia's Nemotron open models to develop a sovereign, payments-focused AI foundation model aimed at enhancing trust, resilience and scalability across India's payments network