NEW DELHI: India’s AI Impact Summit 2026 is emerging as an early gauge of whether the country’s state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startups can demonstrate meaningful progress in a rapidly shifting global AI landscape, as companies backed under the government’s India AI Mission prepare to showcase their models this week. The summit opened to a stuttered…
“What is happening,” he says, “is that the joint family did not live.” He isn’t romanticising it. He’s describing a practical advantage the old arrangement had: when his grandfather’s house held 30 people, farm decisions didn’t require an appointment with an officer or a visit to a university. Somebody in the house had seen the…
New Delhi is entering a fresh artistic era with its inaugural AI (artificial intelligence) Film Festival, merging cinematography, tech, and heritage at one of the capital’s most legendary sites. Slated for 17 February, this celebration is part of the broader India AI Impact Summit 2026 and features an evening dedicated to cinema crafted through artificial…
Three previous AI summits have been held so far—the first in the UK in 2023, followed by South Korea in 2024 and France in 2025. While each produced policy declarations, none were binding or led to an actionable outcome in international collaboration or to an impact on private companies. Industry stakeholders said in the absence…
Sanjeev Bikhchandani who founded Info Edge, the parent company of jobs portal Naukri.com, feels that AI is not taking away jobs from you, but advised employees to “learn 5-15 useful AI tools” in order to keep up with the job market demands. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026 on 16 February, Bikhchandani addressed the…
India’s big-ticket push for global prominence in artificial intelligence begins on 16 February. The AI Impact Summit has driven hotel prices higher across New Delhi, and attendance rates for global heads of state match those seen when India hosted the G20 summit in 2023. Why is there such hype around a technology event, and what…
In the early interviews, the candidate sailed through the basic, definition-based questions. But as the screening levels got more complex, cracks began to appear. The candidate panicked when the interviewers asked him to walk through decisions in a live scenario. He also showed a lack of basic knowledge in systems he claimed to have built….
After initially pushing for DeepSeek-like large language models (LLMs) last year, the Center has recalibrated its stance. The emphasis now is on building smaller AI models tailored for enterprise use cases. Startups, too, say it is “too early” to unveil sweeping LLMs capable of competing with US and Chinese counterparts. The AI Impact Summit, scheduled…
Elon Musk described the development as the “very early stages of the singularity.” The Reddit-style platform—hosted on GitHub—claims more than 2.6 million registered AI agents, generating over 1 million posts and 12 million comments. Critics caution that meaningful engagement appears far lower than headline numbers suggest, and that human prompting and intervention remain widespread. Even…
MUMBAI: As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reshapes India’s $350-billion information technology sector, projected to reach that size by the end of the year, concerns about large-scale job losses have intensified. A study by economic think tank Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICIER) found that a majority of Indian IT sector workers worried…
