New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with leading Indian AI startups has left founders and innovators deeply inspired, reaffirming India's ambition to emerge as a global leader in artificial intelligence.

The roundtable, chaired by the Prime Minister this week, comes ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, scheduled to be held in India next month.

Twelve Indian AI startups, selected under the Foundation Model Pillar of the Summit, participated in the discussions and presented their work across diverse domains, including Indian language foundation models, multilingual LLMs, speech and generative AI, healthcare diagnostics, engineering simulations, material research, and data-driven analytics.

Several founder...