Tusharika Deka
India recently hosted the AI Summit from 16 to 20 February 2026. This was the fourth and the largest in a series of AI summits that began in the United Kingdom in 2023. The inaugural summit in the United Kingdom in 2023, followed by the second summit in Seoul, South Korea, in 2024, primarily focused on AI safety. The third summit, held in Paris, France, in 2025, centred on innovation, while the 2026 summit in India emphasised impact and a human-centric approach towards AI. Based on the principles of People, Planet, and Progress, the summit brought together over 250,000 registered attendees, representatives of over 100 countries, and world leaders like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Emmanuel Macron of France and Pedro Sánchez of Spain.
It also convened prominent figures from the technology sector, including Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI, reflecting an optic to position India at the intersection of global governance, technological development and market-driven innovation. Amidst criticism coming from technology experts about the summit being more of a spectacle than any significant promises, and chaotic event management. The event appeared to offer limited concrete commitments in terms of research breakthroughs, regulatory clarity, or technological infrastructure. Even though the summit delivered too little in terms of immediate innovation outcomes, it showed significant strategic strength in three main areas – demographic scale, market expansion and status symbolisation.
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