India Eyes $200 Billion in AI Investments Over Two Years

A hoarding for the 'India AI Impact Summit 2026' in New Delhi.

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India expects to attract more than $200 billion in artificial intelligence-driven investments over the course of two years, a top federal minister said, underscoring the world’s most populous nation’s surging ambitions in the new technology.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has designed a five-layer framework comprising applications, AI models, compute capacity, data centers and network infrastructure as well as energy to democratize and deploy the technology at scale.