The India AI Impact Summit 2026 wrapped up at Bharat Mandapam this week with a flurry of multi-billion dollar deals, signalling India’s shift from AI consumer to AI builder.

NVIDIA emerged as the summit’s star, announcing partnerships with Larsen & Toubro to build gigawatt-scale AI data centres in Chennai and Mumbai, and with cloud provider Yotta to deploy over 20,000 Blackwell GPUs for Indian enterprises. The company also tied up with leading venture capital firms — including Peak XV and Accel India — to co-invest in AI startups.

Google partnered with Reliance Jio to develop cloud clusters in India, while Anthropic opened a Bengaluru office and announced collaborations with Indian nonprofits to build locally relevant AI tools. Qualcomm pledged up to $150 million to back Indian AI startups.

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On the policy front, the government reaffirmed its IndiaAI Mission — backed by over $1 billion — to expand domestic compute capacity and fund sovereign AI model development.

With billions committed and infrastructure breaking ground, India appears set to become a major force in shaping the next chapter of global AI. 

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