Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 19, 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Organised under the IndiaAI Mission by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the summit ran from February 16–21, 2026 and is the fourth in the global AI summit series — following Bletchley Park (2023), Seoul (2024), and Paris (2025) — and the first to be hosted by a Global South nation.

The summit drew delegations from over 100 countries, including 20+ heads of state and 60+ ministers. Notable attendees included French President Emmanuel Macron, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and tech leaders Sundar Pichai (Google), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries). Microsoft pledged $50 billion for AI investment in lower-income countries by decade's end. A Guinness World Record was set for 250,946 AI responsibility pledges collected in 24 hours (February 16–17). The summit was structured around three pillars — People, Planet, Progress — with seven thematic working groups.

India's BharatGen Param2, a 17-billion parameter multilingual AI model supporting all 22 scheduled Indian languages with multimodal capabilities, was launched at the summit. India also announced an expansion of its GPU capacity by 20,000 units, adding to its existing base of 38,000 GPUs. Rajasthan's contribution was visible through the Bharat-VISTAAR agricultural AI platform launched in Jaipur on February 17, 2026, just two days before the summit's inauguration.