Artificial Intelligence

AI could lift global growth by 0.8%, says IMF chief; India’s Viksit Bharat goal achievable

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI can lift global growth by 0.8% and back India’s Viksit Bharat goal, but warns 40% of jobs face disruption.

'Topless, brainless, shameless': BJP accuses Congress of 'embarrassing India' at global AI Summit

Hitting out at the opposition party for the protest, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, "For the Congress, I have just three words -- topless, brainless and shameless."

Data localisation is a good idea in a limited way, says Jason Oxman

On the AI related opportunities, Oxman said that India being the world’s largest democracy, and having more than 1.4 billion people where innovation is free to flourish – is the most exciting aspects for the technology industry.

Modi meets AI startup CEOs, pushes for India-first data governance and language tech

PM Modi meets AI startup CEOs, stresses data governance, vernacular AI and India-scale innovation; also holds talks with OpenAI and Qualcomm leaders.

AI summit: "Govt's grant an important catalyst for Sarvam, don’t want to mindlessly train large models", says Cofounder Pratyush Kumar

At the Summit, Sarvam unveils Kaze smart glasses, plans to open-source LLM weights and scale foundational AI innovation

The next AI revolution is coming. But it's not AGI and not coming next year: Yann LeCun at AI Summit

"Everybody is stealing each other's engineers, and working on the same thing because nobody can afford to do something slightly different and then run the risk of falling behind," said AI Godfather Yann LeCun.

AI Summit: AI could accelerate global growth; help achieve Viksit Bharat, says IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva

The potential disruption of AI on labour could be “tsunami-like”, said IMF MD, estimating that around 40 percent of jobs could be impacted

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Making AI count

For Moneycontrol Pro Panorama Feb 20 edition: India’s AI potential depends on institutional reforms, regulator increases insurance rules, rooftop solar growth faces significant challenges, China and India diversify investments, and more

Over-pivoting on building everything locally puts India at a disadvantaged position: Zscaler’s Jay Chaudhry

He argued for a combination of locally built technology combined with external software stack especially in critical and sophisticated areas like cybersecurity

OPINION | India’s AI moment’s here but realising its full potential requires institutional redesign

AI is not something that can be layered on to the existing way of doing things. Organisations need to rethink entire processes

Is an AI price war about to begin?

Assumptions underpinning valuations of big US groups might be too optimistic

Tech Mahindra launches 8-billion parameter Hindi-first education LLM at AI Impact Summit

Tech Mahindra is the only IT services company that got selected under IndiaAI Mission to build its own LLM. The Pune-headquarter IT firm made advancements to its existing ‘Project Indus’ to build the new foundation model.

AI Summit: India offers world’s cheapest compute at Rs 65/hour, lower than a movie ticket, says Jayant Chaudhary

Strong top-down policy backing and leadership recognition of AI’s potential could help India leapfrog structural challenges, says skill development minister

Provocative but not accurate: Cisco's Jeetu Patel reacts to Vinod Khosla jibe about company

Patel defended Cisco after Vinod Khosla's jibe about company, saying the venture capitalist's remarks are 'provocative, but not accurate'

OpenAI–Anthropic Rivalry: Decoding the Altman–Amodei hand-holding snub

The two now helm the world’s most valuable closely held AI firms: OpenAI, valued at roughly $500 billion, and Anthropic at about $380 billion

Nvidia, OpenAI near $30 billion investment in place of unfinished $100 billion deal: Report

The deal, which would be part of a new funding round for the artificial intelligence start-up, could be finalized as early as this weekend, the report said

Nandan Nilekani lauds PM Modi's vision, says India will lead world in showing how AI diffusion can improve lives of people

Nilekani recalled how PM Modi gave them a suggestion to extend AI application to dairy besides agriculture.

'Thank God there is AI': Tata Group chair N Chandrasekaran bets on AI to fix cities, inequality, healthcare

N Chandrasekaran says India’s 'AI moment' has arrived, urging technology to tackle inequality, healthcare and urban gaps at the AI Impact Summit.

“AI is not optics for us; real work is happening in Karnataka,” says Siddaramaiah; state signs innovation pacts with Paris’ VivaTech, Poland’s Katowice

Agreements aim to give Karnataka startups direct access to European markets as Bengaluru doubles down on AI skilling and public tech investments

AI Summit: Here's why Lightspeed’s Bejul Somaia sees India’s AI future in applications, not infrastructure

The venture investor said India’s advantage in AI lies in building context-driven applications rather than competing in large model development, as falling costs of intelligence reshape healthcare, education and startup building.

India AI Summit: Countries that adopt, adopt and adopt model for AI will lead the way, says former British PM Rishi Sunak

Speaking at the AI summit in India, Sunak said nothing in our lifetimes would be “more transformative” than AI

India can become one of world’s most consequential environments for AI applications: Wipro’s Rishad Premji

Premji highlighted how India working on AI would mean, “solving problems for a billion people”, making it a critical market for global tech enterprises with whom the nation already has strong ties with.

‘Jiska data, uska adhikar’: What PM Modi’s data sovereignty pitch really means

Modi’s ‘jiska data, uska adhikar’ links privacy law, jurisdiction and Budget 2026’s AI data-centre tax holiday. What it means for citizens and Big Tech.

AI Summit: The India opportunity is large; a quarter of our researchers are Indian, says Mistral's Arthur Mensch

The Mistral CEO warned against concentration of AI power among a handful of companies, urged countries to build sovereign AI capabilities, and called India uniquely positioned to emerge as a global innovation hub.

Red Hat helping enterprises move from AI pilots to scaled deployment; says India among top three APAC markets

As AI moves from support functions into core business operations, Bal said concerns around governance, security, data control, model sizing, and deployment environments become critical.

Mukesh Ambani outlines RIL's Rs 10-lakh-crore plans to fuel India's AI growth: Read full speech

RIL chairman delivered a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19

‘Was sort of confused': OpenAI’s Sam Altman on awkward exchange with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at AI summit

I was sort of confused, like when he (PM Modi) grabbed my hand and put it up. I just wasn't sure what we were supposed to be doing, Sam Altman told Moneycontrol

Incredible small language AI models emerging at low costs in India: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

"I didn't think then, and I don't think now, that you can make a frontier model for $10 million. In fact, if anything, I would just say that it's gotten harder. The total complexity and costs have gone up," Sam Altman told Moneycontrol.

Fractal launches healthcare reasoning model Vaidya 2.0 at India AI summit

The company claims that Vaidya 2.0 has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Gemini Pro 3 on healthcare reasoning benchmark

OpenAI's Altman claims world is just 'couple of years' away from true super intelligence: 'Would do a better job than me'

Altman flagged concerns of centralization of the technology in one company or nation, highlighting that such cases could lead to potential 'ruin'

AI Summit: Can India achieve 20-25% growth because of AI? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is optimistic

From language inclusion and farmer tools to the prospect of 25 percent growth, Amodei says India offers the clearest test case for whether artificial intelligence can deliver real-world benefits at scale

AI Summit: In AI, the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top, says Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani

The resentment of the blue collar workers led to the train wreck of globalisation. The resentment of the white collar workers is going to lead to the train wreck of AI, Nilekani said.

India AI Summit: Biggest AI opportunity lies in bridging gap between LLMs and enterprises, says Vishal Sikka

India should go beyond simply adopting current AI and focus on building safer and more efficient systems, the former Infosys CEO and founder of Vianai Systems has said

AI can't solve this: OpenAI's Altman, Anthropic's Amodei avoid holding hands at AI Summit as rivalry heats up

Altman and Amodei shared the dais with Modi and other technology executives, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai

AI Impact Summit: New Delhi Frontier AI pact “commits” firms to publish anonymised AI usage data, test models for multilingual, local contexts

Voluntary framework unveiled by Ashwini Vaishnaw pushes transparency in AI adoption and culturally grounded evaluations

OPINION | Purposeful Personalisation: AI-driven transformation in financial engagement

Financial institutions must move beyond generic outreach. They should adopt unified platforms and agentic AI to deliver timely, personalised, context-aware engagement. This builds trust, boosts conversion, and increases customer lifetime value

AI agents are hiring humans now. Should we worry?

Two new platforms — one where AI hires humans for real-world tasks, another where bots chat among themselves — are sparking big fears. The reality is more interesting than the panic.

OPINION | The AI threat to Indian IT services is real but the doom narrative is overblown

Markets often swing between excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. The recent correction reflects genuine uncertainty. Yet writing off Indian IT as structurally impaired is not well-thought through 

TCS raises quarterly variable pay out to 80% for mid and senior-level employees in Q3

This is a big shift coming after nearly two years of quarterly variable allowance being slashed to 20-50 percent for the mid and senior-level employees

BIS says AI could widen the global divide. Can India's summit help close it?

While India is hosting its Global AI summit, the central bankers' central bank published a paper explaining why emerging economies have the most to lose from AI's rise--and what can be done to change that

Don’t let digital divide become AI divide: Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Pichai said AI represents the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes — but its promise is neither automatic nor guaranteed.

OpenAI to open new offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai later this year

India is one of the biggest market for OpenAI's ChatGPT with 100 million weekly users.

Bill Gates to skip AI Impact Summit amid Epstein row, confirms Gates Foundation

For the past few days, there were several reports speculating the participation of the Microsoft co-founder, who is already on a visit to India, amid the controversy over Epstein links

Has AI punctured FMCG type valuation narrative of IT stocks?

AI and new technologies have induced business and revenue uncertainty for IT companies

AI Summit 2026 Live Updates: Altman says super intelligence would do better job than human scientists, CEOs in few years

The day 4 of the mega event will see global leaders and tech titans share their thoughts on the role played by the rapidly growing technology in shaping the world's future

There are more consumer AI startups in India than in US: Meta's Alexandr Wang at AI Summit

At India AI Impact Summit, Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said we are at the beginning of a true acceleration in technology and 2026 will mark an inflection point in many ways.

AI Summit: India will have an extraordinary trajectory with AI, says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday said India is poised for an "extraordinary trajectory" in artificial intelligence and emphasised the company's commitment to partnering in the country's AI transformation.

India AI Summit: PM Modi Hosts World Leaders at Bharat Mandapam AI Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts world leaders at the India AI Summit being held at Bharat Mandapam.Global leaders, policymakers, and technology experts have gathered in the Indian capital to discuss artificial intelligence, innovation, global cooperation, and the future impact of AI on economies and societies.Watch key moments, arrivals, and interactions as India takes center stage in shaping the global AI conversation.

India AI Summit 2026: Ashwini Vaishnaw Calls for Global AI Guardrails

At India AI Summit 2026, Ashwini Vaishnaw told Moneycontrol that a global consensus is emerging to jointly control AI-related harms. He said countries will eventually establish collective guardrails and described AI as a “tectonic shift” in technology. Vaishnaw asserted that Big Tech has the capability to implement even a five-minute takedown rule, faster than the proposed three-hour window. He added that IT firms are pivoting to AI-driven service models, with hundreds of legacy systems set for major upgrades.

AI Summit: Democratising flawed AI models could amplify risks, warns Subbarao Kambhhampati

Correctness must come before ethics and inclusiveness debates, says Arizona State University professor