{"id":214713,"date":"2026-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/tech-billionaires-fly-in-for-delhi-ai-expo-as-modi-jostles-to-lead-in-south-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:10:09","slug":"tech-billionaires-fly-in-for-delhi-ai-expo-as-modi-jostles-to-lead-in-south-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/tech-billionaires-fly-in-for-delhi-ai-expo-as-modi-jostles-to-lead-in-south-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/18\/delhi-ai-expo-modi-jostles-lead-south<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-18 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Silicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the global south will wrestle for control over the fast-developing technology.<\/p>\n

During the week-long AI Impact Summit, attended by thousands of tech executives, government officials and AI safety experts, tech companies valued at trillions of dollars will rub along with leaders of countries such as Kenya and Indonesia, where average wages dip well below $1,000 a month.<\/p>\n

Amid a push to speed up AI adoption across the globe, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, the heads of Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, will all be there. Rishi Sunak and George Osborne, a former British prime minister and a former chancellor, will each be pushing for greater adoption of AI. Sunak has taken jobs for Microsoft and Anthropic and Osborne leads OpenAI\u2019s push to deepen and widen the use of ChatGPT beyond its existing 800 million users.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Modi, who will address the summit on Thursday, is positioning India as the AI hub for south Asia and Africa. On the agenda will be AI\u2019s potential to transform agriculture, water supplies and public health. Governments in Kenya, Senegal, Mauritius, Togo, Indonesia and Egypt will send ministers.<\/p>\n

Modi\u2019s enthusiasm for AI has a darker side, civil liberties campaigners say. Last week they raised serious concerns about India deploying AI to increase state surveillance, discriminate against minorities and sway elections. But Modi this week spoke of \u201charnessing artificial intelligence for human-centric progress\u201d and India has given the summit the strapline: \u201cWelfare for all, happiness for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>A visitor looks at a Jio intelligence bot on display at Bharat Mandapam, one of the venues for the AI Impact Summit in Delhi.<\/span> Photograph: Bhawika Chhabra\/Reuters<\/span>Delhi commuters walk past a hoarding advertising the summit.<\/span> Photograph: Arun Sankar\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Summit observers talk of a battle between a…<\/p>\n

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