18/09/2026 Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government is working with industry on regulation to address AI-related risks while preserving its benefits. He highlighted user-safety concerns as a major reason for regulation, reflecting the government’s focus on balancing innovation with online safety.
19/02/2026 At the India AI Impact Summit, Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments, a voluntary framework backed by leading global and Indian AI companies. The initiative focuses on using anonymized insights for policymaking and improving multilingual and use-case evaluations, with an emphasis on outcomes relevant to the Global South.
19/02/2026 Ashwini Vaishnaw outlined India’s AI strategy as a five-layer AI stack covering applications, models, compute, infrastructure, and energy. He said compute should be treated as a public good and emphasized affordable GPU access for startups and academia, alongside sovereign models with multilingual and multimodal capabilities.
17/02/2026 At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Ashwini Vaishnaw said a strong intellectual property regime is essential for India’s creative economy and global capability centres. He also said tensions between AI training and copyright are complex and warned against simplistic regulation of foundational models built from publicly available knowledge.
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