As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues
The world's most populous country is looking at how it can become an artificial-intelligence power without breaking the bank
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Discussion
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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As the India AI Impact Summit gets underway, thinking about this anecdote from Tech Policy Press fellow and Internet Freedom Foundation founding director Apar Gupta, who travels every other day on Mathura Road to reach the High Court and Supreme Court in Delhi. www.techpolicy.pre…
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@deedydas
Deedy
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“Make all flights leave on time. Don't lose bags. Make no mistakes.” [image]
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@thisiskp_
@thisiskp_
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This is wild “India is the second-largest market for https://claude.ai/, home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere. Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks: building applications,
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@anustup_nayak
Anustup Nayak
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Delighted to see @AnthropicAI partner with @CSF_India and @Pratham_India on improving education outcomes using frontier AI. Educational and instructional tasks make up 12% of https://claude.ai/ use in India!!
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@packbropagated
Akash Basudevan
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Not really deep tech roles as of now: [image]
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@championswimmer
Arnav Gupta
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If I'm not wrong there will be a ton of FDE openings in India now.
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@pratham_india
@pratham_india
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We're excited to share a new partnership between Anthropic and Pratham to bring AI-powered learning tools to support students' learning needs across diverse contexts.
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@anthropicai
@anthropicai
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We're officially opening our Bengaluru office—our new home base in India, and Anthropic's second office in Asia-Pacific. India is our second-largest market for https://claude.ai/. We're launching new partnerships to deepen our long-term commitment: https://www.anthropic.com/...
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@tanayvasishtha
Tanay
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There will be no tech roles, except for marketing and sales but I just can't prove it. [video]
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@atroposinsights.com
@atroposinsights.com
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I'm predicting that the there will still be a custom software market... to those that can't or won't leverage AI [embedded post]
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@goi_meity
@goi_meity
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Smt. @debjani_ghosh_, Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog, shares her excitement for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, which is focused on delivering AI's greatest promise of impact at a global scale. #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 #ResponsibleAI #PeoplePlanetProgress [video]
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@aiatmeta
@aiatmeta
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Our team is heading to India this week for the AI Impact Summit & Expo 🇮🇳 Stop by the Meta booth (Exhibition Hall 3, Booth No. 3.7) to meet our team and experience: 📚 Demos of research, including Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and SeamlessExpressive ⚡ [image]
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@imdhananjay
Dhananjay Yadav
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Day 1 of the AI Impact Summit turned to be a pain for us. I came genuinely excited, it was the first time the summit was being hosted in India, and I wanted to show up personally to support the ecosystem and the government's push. But what happened next was shocking. At 12 [video…
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@artijourno
Arti Singh
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No UPI, only cash at food counter at India AI Impact Summit 2026. Truly #DigitalIndia 🤦♀️ My friend totally frustrated after standing in a long queue messaged me this :)
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@akm1410
Ashish K. Mishra
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India is classic. AI events have overtaken actual building of AI companies and everyone is happily playing along.
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@ukinindia
@ukinindia
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Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and AI Minister Kanishka Narayan will be at India's ambitious AI Impact Summit this week to support global AI innovation. Collaboration with India is critical to the UK's ambitions in science and technology. [image]
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@maitreya_wagh
Maitreya Wagh
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Gates are closed so could not access my own booth at the AI Summit. If you're also stuck outside and wanted to visit the @bolna_dev team, dm me. We may set up a mini-booth at some Connaught Place cafe 😂 [image]
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@kmr_dilip
Dilip Kumar
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The World AI Summit starts in India today and it's a great milestone for a country that was mostly known for call centers and IT services. This should give millions of young engineers some encouragement to build from India. Some of the smartest people in the world are coming to
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@mohfw_india
@mohfw_india
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#HealthForAll Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Hosts High-Level Panel Discussion on “Scaling AI for Public Health Impact: Public-Private Partnership” at India AI Impact Summit 2026 India's Health System Has Evolved into a Nationally Interoperable Digital Ecosystem [ima…
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@kritikaaaa_10
Kritika Kapoor
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Brooooooo it's too crowded here at AI SUMMIT Delhi like you can't even navigate properly plus other than AI posters there's nothing AI and future here 😭 just another well marketed event [image]
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@zoho
@zoho
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📢 We're honoured to be part of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, joining fellow leaders to shape the next chapter of AI. Guided by the spirit of ‘Sarvajana Hitaya, Sarvajana Sukhaya’, a call for welfare and happiness for all, we remain committed to building contextually aware AI […
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@mopr_goi
@mopr_goi
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The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is presenting how AI is supporting grassroots governance at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Visitors and delegates are experiencing Gram Sabha processes through immersive Virtual Reality powered by SabhaSaar and [image…
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@keshav_lohiaaa
Keshav Lohia
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Claude and Eleven Labs have both announced their intent to develop voice AI models for a ‘billion’ people in India Competition is on for sarvam, let's see how they measure up.
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@vtxt21
Veena Jain
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I don't understand why AI Impact Summit is happening in Delhi & not in Bengaluru Bengaluru is the undisputed king of India's software power & world understand that Today itself AI giant Anthropic also announced its first office in India in Bengaluru Our politicians should
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@himanshustwts
Himanshu
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a lot is going to change not only in low-resource language (which has been the moat to indic ai startups) but on enterprise level + govt settings. more competition, more effort and more impact. i think a good number of startups forming in this quarter. exciting times for 🇮🇳 [imag…
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@darxtrix
Ankush
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Big day in the indian ai landscape, > @AnthropicAI opened their office here > Neysa Ai raised $1.2B from @blackstone for upscaling their ops > @OfficialINDIAai planning AI data city $175B city in Vishakhapattanam Couldn't be more bullish on India.
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@ashwinivaishnaw
Ashwini Vaishnaw
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AI-led upskilling is building a future-ready talent pipeline for the global media industry. ✅ ‘Create in India’ Mission will strengthen Orange Economy, position India as the world's preferred creative hub, and power the next 25 years of growth. [video]
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@narendramodi
Narendra Modi
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Inaugurated the India AI Impact Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam. Being here among innovators, researchers and tech enthusiasts gives a glimpse of the extraordinary potential of AI, Indian talent and innovation. Together, we will shape solutions not just for India but for the [image]
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@chandrarsrikant
Chandra R. Srikanth
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Dario Amodei in Bengaluru in conversation with @ighose One of the most unique things about India is the technical intensity of Claude usage Have a huge community of developers who use the API Anthropic run rate business has doubled over four months since I last visited We [image]
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@chandrarsrikant
Chandra R. Srikanth
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Rahul Patil, CTO, Anthropic draws on his Indian and Bengaluru roots while kicking off the developer summit Impossible things are possible in India I was born and brought up in Bengaluru My mom was a computer science teacher Studied in Baldwin, Joseph and PES University PES [image…
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r/ClaudeAI
r
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Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India today