PM Modi says AI Summit showed India’s global rise: ‘Our actions discussed around the world’

PM Narendra Modi at the Rising Bharat Summit 2026 in New Delhi on February 27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is now a rising global power, with the world taking notice of all our actions, citing the recently held AI Impact Summit in New Delhi as an example.

“Until a few years ago, India's events were ignored and not paid attention to. Our actions today are discussed around the world, like the AI summit,” PM Modi claimed at the Rising Bharat Summit 2026 on February 27.

PM Modi pointed out that there were over 100 nations at the AI summit, with nations from both global north and south sitting at the same table, along with big corporations and small startups.

“The vision with which world has been seeing India has changed. Whatever discussion happens here, is analysed on global level,” Modi noted.

The country has been shaping artificial intelligence narratives and the entire global south is following us, said Modi, adding that India now has its own AI startup ecosystem and money to invest in data centres. “Our reforms in nuclear power sector, will help India's AI ecosystem,” said Modi, adding India is shaping and is a part of global discussions on AI.

PM Modi also slammed the government of past decades, saying  imported ideologies from other countries instilled the feeling of us being uneducated.

He accused the past government being busy with copying foreign technology, rather their developing India's own capabilities. "We used to copy international techniques and wait for acceptance from the world," PM Modi said at the summit.