The AI Impact 2026 summit being held in New Delhi has opened floodgates of AI-focused announcements in India. OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are among tech moguls who have landed in New Delhi to be part of Southeast Asia’s first landmark AI summit.
OpenAI, in a milestone announcement, said it is partnering with The Mumbai-headquartered Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to construct AI infrastructure with 100MW capacity, with the option to be scaled to 1GW capacity.
“OpenAI will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center business,” the parent firm of ChatGPT said in its official note. “This infrastructure will enable OpenAI’s most advanced models to run securely in India, delivering lower latency while meeting data residency, security, and compliance requirements for mission-critical and government workloads.”
It has been during this AI Impact 2026 conference that major India-focused announcements were made targeting AI development and growth in the world’s most populated country. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google among AI giants that have reached India to participate in this event have announced a plethora of India-focused efforts lauding the country’s tech potential.
Altman outlines AI vision for India
Altman recently disclosed that India is the second largest market for ChatGPT in the world with over a 100,000 users. Mentioning that India is “well positioned to lead in AI”.
The aim of this infrastructure will be to tackle advance AI task loads for the country. As per OpenAI, the partnership is part of its ambitious Stargate project that aims to establish an AI infra cluster internationally to advance the technology.
OpenAI has also announced education collaborations with Indian institutes specializing in healthcare, management, petroleum, and energy — vouching to offer over 100,000 ChatGPT Edu licenses to help prepare students with AI skills.
Later in the year, the U.S.-headquartered company plans to inaugurate offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai while continuing its office in Delhi.
Here’s what Google has in mind with India
For Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined OpenAI’s Altman in presenting India-specific AI initiatives at the AI Impact Summit. On Thursday, Pichai announced a $15 billion infrastructure investment in India.
Pichai, an alumnus of India’s prestigious IIT-Kharagpur, said the developer energy in India is unlike any other country in the world. To tap into India’s AI talent, Google has planned to position a full-stack AI hub in Vishakhapatnam to house a gigawatt-scale compute along with a new international subsea cable gateway.
Expanding its engagement with the Indian students, Pichai said, Google aims to bring GenAI to over 10,000 schools to approximately 11 million students.
Reliance rages at AI Impact Summit
India’s richest, Mukesh Ambani has vouched that Reliance Industries will be part of bringing AI to India.
In a keynote, Ambani vouched to make intelligence affordable in India — giving an example of his free-SIM strategy with unlimited data that worked wonders for Jio adoption in 2016.
The 68-year-old billionaire said his companies will infuse Rs. 10 lakh crores over the next seven years to build “Jio Intelligence”. For this, Ambani plans to create gigawatt-scale data centres. The work on the first one has already started in Jamnagar, Gujarat, he said.
In the second half of 2026, the Reliance chief also plans to inaugurate data centres with over 120 megawatts in capacity for the development and training of AI models.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined tech moguls on the Bharat Mandapam stage on Thursday with the vision of bringing India to the centre of the global AI ecosystem.
The five day conference that started on February 16 will be concluding on February 21 in New Delhi. During the event, Anthropic AI also announced its Bengaluru office to expand its footprint in India.
The event has been organized by India’s ministry of technology and marks India’s first major AI event so far.