Overview
- The five-day summit and expo run February 16–20 at Bharat Mandapam, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to open the India AI Impact Expo at 5 p.m. local time.
- Delegations from over 100 countries and leading tech chiefs are in attendance, while Nvidia confirmed CEO Jensen Huang will not travel and will be represented by senior executives led by EVP Jay Puri.
- The government’s AI Responsibility Pledge portal is live for a 24‑hour Guinness World Record attempt for the most pledges to responsible AI use.
- Yotta and Nvidia indicated forthcoming announcements to multiply India’s GPU capacity, underscoring momentum to grow beyond the roughly 34,000 GPUs reported nationally and current reliance on imported chips and private clouds.
- Participation has geopolitical dimensions, with Russia sending a high‑level team led by Maxim Oreshkin and Pakistan not invited without an official explanation.