Pichai said that India was not just a market to be served but a co-builder of what comes next. “India is going to be a full-stack player in AI,” he said, adding he expected “every sector, every workflow, to be transformed” by the tech.
The five-day India AI Impact Summit, which kicked off Monday, featured OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Meta’s Alexandr Wang alongside political leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron. More than 20 heads of state and representatives from over 60 countries were expected to attend.
The gathering has also become an opportunity for AI companies to emphasize their presence in India. Anthropic announced this week that India has become the second-largest market for its Claude platform, while Altman wrote in the Times of India that the country now accounts for 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making it OpenAI’s second-largest user base after the U.S. Underpinning it all is a Modi government push for a “global AI commons”—a shared repository of AI tools focused on education, health and agriculture—a move that reflects a broader anxiety that frontier AI development remains too concentrated in the hands of a few American companies.
