AI Impact Summit's focus is to give voice to Global South: India AI CEO

Q&A: India will use the AI Impact Summit to showcase itself as an artificial intelligence (AI) service provider to companies and countries worldwide, IndiaAI Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abhishek Singh said in an interaction with Aashish Aryan in New Delhi.

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While India may not have access to the same scale of GPU (graphics processing unit) farms as countries and companies with deep pockets, its value lies in building products on top of indigenous models developed using locally trained parameters, Singh said. Edited excerpts:

What should one expect from the February summit happening in New Delhi?

The event will mark the first AI Impact Summit to be held in the Global South. When members met for the first time at Bletchley Park in 2023, the primary concern was safety and security, the risks posed by frontier AI models, and what governments should do to ensure Al is used more for benefit and less for harm.

South Korea then hosted the next summit, and France hosted the AI Action Summit in 2025.