New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held an important roundtable meeting with Indian AI startups at his residence on Lok Kalyan Marg. This meeting was organized before the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to be held in India next month.

In this meeting, 12 Indian AI startups selected for AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge participated and presented their projects. These startups are working in areas like Indian language based foundation models, multi-lingual LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-audio and text-to-video technologies, generative AI based 3D content for e-commerce and marketing, engineering simulation, materials research, healthcare diagnostics and medical research.

Representatives of AI startups appreciated the government’s strong commitment to advance the Artificial Intelligence ecosystem in India. He said that the AI ​​sector is developing rapidly and it has immense potential in the future. Startups also said that now the global center of AI innovation and its use is gradually shifting towards India.

Prime Minister Modi said during the meeting that Artificial Intelligence is an important medium to bring comprehensive changes in the society. He said that the India AI Impact Summit to be held next month will give India an opportunity to play a bigger role towards global technological leadership. The Prime Minister emphasized that India is working towards transformative development using AI.

Describing startups and AI entrepreneurs as the ‘co-architects’ of India’s future, the Prime Minister said that the country has immense potential for both innovation and large-scale implementation. He said that India should present to the world a unique AI model reflecting the spirit of “Made in India, Made for the World”.

Prime Minister Modi said that the world’s trust in India is the country’s biggest strength. He emphasized that Indian AI models should be ethical, fair, transparent and based on the principles of data privacy. He called on startups to work towards global leadership and said India can promote affordable, inclusive AI globally. Besides, it was also said to give priority to local content and regional languages ​​in the Indian AI model. Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav and Minister of State Jitin Prasad were also present on this occasion.