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India hosts AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, first in the series in the Global South

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India hosted the AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, from 16 February 2026, the successor to the Bletchley, Seoul and Paris meetings, organised around 'People, Planet, Progress' and seven working groups including one on AI safety. Reported attendance included more than 100 country delegations and leaders of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic; announcements included plans to add over 20,000 GPUs to India's public compute pool.

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It moved the frontier-AI summit track to a Global South host and toward access and adoption, with safety one strand among many.

SourceIndiaAI (AI Impact Summit site)Coverage: Wikipedia Based on credible reporting; we could not open the primary document. Independently fact-checked on 7 Oct 2026.

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