Last Updated:February 21, 2026, 17:50 IST The AI Impact Summit in India, attended by tens of thousands of people including top tech CEOs, was the fourth annual global meeting to discuss how to handle generative AI. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. (PTI) More than 80 countries signed the AI Impact Summit Declaration in New Delhi on Saturday, which called for “advancing secure, trustworthy and robust AI”, deeming it foundational to build trust and maximise societal and economic benefits. The Delhi Declaration underscored that the wide-scale adoption of AI and AI-based applications holds unprecedented potential to drive economic and social development. “Open-source AI applications and other accessible AI approaches, where appropriate, and wide-scale diffusion of AI use cases can contribute to scalability, replicability, and adaptability of AI systems across sectors,” it read. The Declaration called for further international cooperation and multistakeholder engagement across our countries along the seven chakras (pillars) of the summit, centred around the principles of development of human capital to broaden access for social empowerment, …