{"id":218780,"date":"2026-03-01T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/india-stakes-its-claim-in-the-ai-race-with-first-global-south-summit-but-can-it-compete\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:45:13","slug":"india-stakes-its-claim-in-the-ai-race-with-first-global-south-summit-but-can-it-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/india-stakes-its-claim-in-the-ai-race-with-first-global-south-summit-but-can-it-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"India stakes its claim in the AI race with first global South summit &#8211; but can it compete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/india-stakes-claim-ai-race-115741187.html\">India stakes its claim in the AI race with first global South summit &#8211; but can it compete?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/india-stakes-claim-ai-race-115741187.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/india-stakes-claim-ai-race-115741187.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-01 02:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>India AI Summit (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p>India is announcing itself in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence models this week, hosting one of the world\u2019s biggest AI gatherings and positioning itself as the voice of the global South in a field long dominated by the US and China.<\/p>\n<p>More than 250,000 participants are expected across the five-day India\u2013AI Impact Summit at New Delhi\u2019s 123-acre Bharat Mandapam complex, with leaders from 20 nations and ministerial delegations from over 45 countries in attendance. Tech chiefs including Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai are on the guest list alongside policymakers, investors and researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the summit\u2019s organisers is clear from messaging emblazoned across the venue: \u201cDemocratising AI for a Billion+ Indians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inside the sprawling event halls, robots serve coffee while start-ups pitch voice assistants trained in Indian languages. One booth showcases AI tools to decode Ayurveda \u2013\u00a0traditional Indian medicine \u2013 while another promises systems to tackle deepfakes and online scams, major issues facing India\u2019s internet users.<\/p>\n<p>Giant digital installations reimagine the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic, in immersive AI-generated scenes. Displays for global household names sit alongside those representing early-stage Indian entrepreneurs hoping to build alternatives to Silicon Valley\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering marks the first time the global AI summit has been hosted in a developing country. Previous editions were held in the UK, South Korea and France.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Banners from a road leading to the AI summit in Delhi, India on Monday (AP)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ICp_sazsVDDiHFru6ooT5A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_the_independent_us_877\/96e22a8af39f195665b28d271c527cf5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Banners from a road leading to the AI summit in Delhi, India on Monday (AP)<\/p>\n<p>India currently ranks third globally in AI competitiveness behind the US and China, according to Stanford University research. Officials argue that the country\u2019s digital public infrastructure \u2013 from biometric identity to online payments \u2013 gives it an edge in scaling AI across governance, health, education and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy overlaying AI&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/india-stakes-claim-ai-race-115741187.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India stakes its claim in the AI race with first global South summit &#8211; but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/aol_the_independent_us_877\/06b167610b8e1ea5ddb4f4d197586428","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218782,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218780\/revisions\/218782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}