"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India as a central player in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, saying the country aims to build technology at home while deploying it worldwide. "Design and develop in India. Deliver to the world. Deliver to humanity," Modi told a gathering of some world leaders, technology executives and policymakers at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi."
"The summit was also addressed by French President Emmanuel Macron, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who called for a $3 billion fund to help poorer countries build basic AI capacity, including skills, data access and affordable computing power. "The future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries, or left to the whims of a few billionaires," Guterres said, stressing that AI must "belong to everyone.""
India seeks to be a central player in the global AI ecosystem by building technology domestically and deploying it worldwide. The strategy is encapsulated in the slogan "Design and develop in India. Deliver to the world. Deliver to humanity." The country aims to leverage large-scale digital public infrastructure, including digital ID and online payments, as low-cost models for AI deployment in developing countries. Global leaders and tech executives attended the summit, and the U.N. proposed a $3 billion fund to help poorer countries build basic AI capacity. Major tech investment commitments to India include Microsoft’s $17.5 billion, Google’s $15 billion, and Amazon’s $35 billion pledges.
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