You Are Co-Architects of India’s Digital Future: PM Modi to AI Start-ups
PM urges ethical, indigenous and language-inclusive AI models as India prepares for AI Impact Summit 2026
- PM Modi chaired a roundtable with 12 Indian AI start-ups ahead of AI Impact Summit 2026
- Start-ups showcased innovations in healthcare, multilingual LLMs, analytics and engineering simulations
- PM stressed ethical, unbiased and privacy-centric AI development
- Government assured full support to scale Indian AI models globally
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 8th Jan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level roundtable with leading Indian artificial intelligence start-ups, describing them as “co-architects of India’s future” and urging them to build ethical, unbiased and inclusive AI models rooted in Indian languages and values.
The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 scheduled to be held next month.
Twelve Indian AI start-ups that have qualified under the Foundation Model Pillar of the summit presented their ideas and ongoing work. These start-ups are engaged in a wide range of AI-driven solutions including Indian language foundation models, multilingual large language models (LLMs), speech-to-text, text-to-video tools, generative AI for e-commerce and marketing, engineering simulations, material research, advanced analytics, and healthcare diagnostics.
Commending India’s fast-evolving AI ecosystem, start-up leaders said that the “centre of gravity” of global AI innovation and deployment is gradually shifting towards India, citing the country’s enabling policy environment, growing talent base and expanding digital infrastructure.
Addressing the participants, Prime Minister Modi highlighted the transformative role of AI in society and said that India would play a major global role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
“Start-ups and AI entrepreneurs are the co-architects of India’s future,” the Prime Minister said, stressing that Indian AI models should be developed with a “Made in India, Made for the World” vision.
He underlined the need for Indian AI systems to be ethical, unbiased, transparent and compliant with data privacy principles, and suggested that local and indigenous content along with regional languages must be promoted in future AI models. He also called upon start-ups to work towards making India a global leader in affordable, inclusive and frugal AI innovation.
The Prime Minister assured full government support to help Indian AI start-ups scale their technologies globally.
The roundtable was attended by CEOs and representatives from leading start-ups including Avataar, BharatGen, Fractal, Gan, Genloop, Gnani, Intellihealth, Sarvam, Shodh AI, Soket AI, Tech Mahindra and Zenteiq. Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw and Minister of State Jitin Prasada were also present.
