AI Impact Summit 2026 Day 4 Live Updates: 'Inclusive technology for everyone our goal,' PM Modi says during leader's plenary session

The Galgotias University staff and officials on Wednesday vacated their stall at the India AI Impact Summit expo, following controversy over the display of a "Chinese" robodog, which they allegedly claimed to be their own invention.

According to sources, the authorities had asked Galgotias University to vacate its expo stall.

Galgotias University Registrar Nitin Kumar Gaur on Wednesday issued a clarification amid growing controversy over the display of a "Chinese" RoboDog at the AI Impact Summit.

Speaking to ANI, Gaur explained that the confusion stemmed from the use of the words "develop" and "development." He clarified that the university did not develop the robot but had worked on its development for academic and research purposes.

"This is a jumble of two words, develop, and development. We didn't develop it. We worked on its development... We want to bring them, just like that robot was brought, and an effort was made to get students to do research on it," Gaur said.

India has unveiled an ambitious, full-stack artificial intelligence roadmap that positions the country as a serious contender in the next phase of the global technology race, with parallel progress across five strategic layers- applications, models, chips, infrastructure and energy, noted a report by Ventura.

The report says, speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw outlined what he termed a "whole-of-nation" approach to AI, aimed at building a "frugal, sovereign and scalable" ecosystem. The strategy seeks to ensure that India is not merely a consumer of global AI systems but a creator of foundational technologies.

At the services layer, India's IT majors are pivoting from traditional software maintenance to AI-led delivery models. Companies such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech are embedding generative AI and agentic workflows into enterprise offerings, collectively reskilling over a million employees to align with AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) opportunities. This transition is expected to redefine India's global IT export profile over the next decade.

On the model layer, India is backing sovereign large language models (LLMs) tailored to multilingual and India-specific use cases. The government-backed BharatGen Param2 (17B) model, launched at the summit, is designed to support 22 Indian languages and multimodal capabilities. Indigenous platforms such as Sarvam AI and Krutrim are focusing on Indic language optimisation, document intelligence and cost-efficient inference, positioning themselves as viable alternatives for domestic enterprise and public sector adoption. While global models such as ChatGPT and Gemini retain scale advantages, Indian models aim to compete on localisation, affordability and data sovereignty.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said India is focused on practical applications of AI, including enterprise productivity, and solutions for population-scale challenges such as healthcare, agriculture, and climate change.

Speaking at a research symposium at the AI Impact Summit, the minister also expressed happiness over the strong participation and optimism shown by young people at an AI Expo on Tuesday.

He informed that about 2.5 lakh attendees, mostly under the age of 30, took part across the exhibition area.

"It was a phenomenal response when I interacted with the young minds. I was so surprised by the optimism that most of the young people expressed towards this opportunity which is coming for them," Vaishnaw said.

The minister said he was feeling hopeful for a totally new future for India and for the world.

"We, in India, are very focused on AI in the edge, AI for use cases, AI for solving real-world problems, AI for improving the productivity in the enterprises, for population-scale problems like healthcare, like agriculture, like climate change. These are things we are focussed on here in India. And the AI submit brings that opportunity," he said.

Canada's minister for AI and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon, will participate in the Global AI Impact Summit being held in the national capital, the High Commission of Canada in India shared on Wednesday.

In a series of posts on X, the High Commission highlighted how the visit aims to strengthen Canada's AI partnership with India, with Minister Solomon slated to meet senior Indian officials.

The posts further noted that the visit is focused on advancing partnerships in the fields of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.