IndiaAI Mission

Timeline

1. 13 Sep2026
   Science and tech

   Xi proposes BRICS open-source AI ecosystem at New Delhi summit¹²

   Xi proposed an open-source AI community for BRICS and cooperation on large language models. Reports say the joint declaration did not explicitly endorse the proposal.

   • Proposal made 13 September 2026 at the 18th BRICS summit
   • Also proposed a BRICS special economic zone partnership, a digital ecosystem cloud platform and an engineer-training alliance
   • Called for a consensus-based global AI governance framework
2. 21 Feb2026
   International

   India AI Impact Summit concludes in Delhi with New Delhi Declaration³⁴⁵⁶⁷

   India hosted the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, described by the IT minister as the first AI summit in the Global South. It ran from 16 February and was extended to close on 21 February with the New Delhi Declaration, endorsed by 88 countries and organisations that day and 91 by 24 February. PM Modi presented the MANAV framework for human-centric AI.

   • Summit week from 16 February 2026, New Delhi, closing on 21 February after a one-day extension; Modi's keynote was on 19 February
   • Described by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as the first AI summit in the Global South
   • New Delhi Declaration: 88 signatories on 21 February (86 countries and two organisations), 91 by 24 February
   • Modi's MANAV vision: Moral and ethical systems, Accountable governance, National sovereignty over data, Accessible and inclusive systems, Valid and legitimate AI
   • Over USD 250 billion in AI infrastructure commitments reported
   • IT Minister said about 20,000 more GPUs would be added in coming weeks to the 38,000 GPUs already under IndiaAI Mission
3. 18 Feb2026
   Science and tech

   Sarvam AI unveils two foundation models, Sarvam 30B and 105B, built under the IndiaAI Mission⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹

   Sarvam AI launched Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B at the AI Impact Summit on 18 February, trained from scratch on IndiaAI Mission compute and released under an Apache 2.0 open licence, with weights reported on Hugging Face and AIKosh. The company says the models are built for Indian languages.

   • Launched 18 February 2026 at the AI Impact Summit
   • Sarvam 30B (about 32 billion parameters, mixture of experts) and Sarvam 105B (about 106 billion parameters, about 10 billion active)
   • Trained from scratch using IndiaAI Mission compute (Yotta infrastructure, Nvidia support)
   • Released under Apache 2.0; one report dates the weights release to about 6 March
   • Company claims strength across Indian languages (22-language claim is the company's own)

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Sources

1. Euronews
2. The Star (Malaysia)
3. Outlook Business
4. IANS
5. All India Radio
6. Outlook Business
7. Free Press Journal
8. Business Today
9. Storyboard18
10. Artificial Analysis
11. OpenSource For You