Artificial Intelligence in India

Artificial intelligence in India refers to the development, adoption and governance of AI in the world's most populous country, where a national mission to subsidise computing, a large technology services industry and a fast-growing startup base have converged within a single decade. The IndiaAI Mission, approved in 2024 with an outlay of ₹10,372 crore (about US$1.25 billion), has placed tens of thousands of GPUs into shared public use, while global technology firms committed more than US$50 billion of new investment in the country across 2025 and 2026.^[1][4]

History and policy

The IndiaAI Mission was approved in 2024 under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and is organised around pillars covering compute capacity, data platforms, application development, skills and startup financing.^[1] In February 2026 India hosted the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated proceedings and participating countries adopted the New Delhi Declaration, endorsed by more than 80 states, on inclusive and responsible AI.^[6] Microsoft used the summit to pledge US$50 billion toward tackling AI inequality.^[7]

Compute and infrastructure

The programme's most visible component is subsidised compute. By March 2026 more than 38,000 GPUs had been onboarded to a common facility, offered to startups, researchers, students and academia at up to 40 per cent below market rates, with 190 projects approved across government, industry and research categories.^[1][2] Private investment followed at unusual speed. In December 2025 Microsoft announced US$17.5 billion for India over 2026 to 2029 — its largest commitment in Asia — building on US$3 billion announced earlier in 2025 and tied to AI skilling for 20 million people by 2030; Amazon committed a further US$35 billion through 2030 on top of US$40 billion previously invested; Google outlined US$15 billion for data-centre capacity in southern India.^[3][4][5] Semiconductor policy runs in parallel through the Semicon India programme, under which ten manufacturing units have been approved — including a Tata Electronics fab in Gujarat with an announced investment of ₹91,526 crore — alongside a design-linked incentive scheme for fabless chip companies.^[1]

Regulation and data protection

India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act was passed in 2023, and its implementing rules were notified on 14 November 2025. The rules phase in obligations over roughly 12 to 18 months and provide for a Data Protection Board, breach notification within 72 hours, consent and retention requirements, and enhanced duties for significant data fiduciaries — including audits, data protection officers and algorithmic fairness assessments.^[8][9] India has not enacted a dedicated AI statute, relying instead on existing law and guidance from regulators as AI deployment spreads.^[9]

>See Also

• AI Singapore
• AI Indonesia
• AI Thailand
• Sovereign AI
• Malaysia AI Talent