Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed a roundtable with Artificial Intelligence startups and firms in Delhi on Thursday (January 8, 2026), ahead of the India AI Impact Summit in February.
The dozen firms Mr. Modi met, which included Tech Mahindra and Sarvam AI, were the qualified firms in the “AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge”. The submissions were invited last year for startups that could “enable large-scale impact” across agriculture, education, healthcare, climate and finance.
Twenty selected teams, according to the challenge’s call for applications, will be able to demo their work at the February summit, which the government has said would have upwards of 1 lakh attendees, with heads of state from France (which hosted the previous AI Action Summit) and other countries visiting.
Talked AI with youngsters from the Indian StartUp world. It was a memorable and insightful interaction, in which they shared their vision and work on how India is transforming the world of AI. It is commendable how these StartUps are working on diverse fields such as e-commerce,… pic.twitter.com/sKQizQaWKJ
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 8, 2026
