India, Feb. 16 -- Drawing a progression link from the Paris AI Action Summit 2025, CyberMedia Research (CMR) believes that the India AI Impact Summit 2026, now underway, must evolve with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI)-led development, focused inclusion, and democratising AI for social welfare. The research firm's latest brief on the summit, titled 'Translating Intent into Impact', notes that India's AI conversation is now centred around building durable capabilities in enterprises and public policy, as well as deploying AI to deliver public services.

This is in sharp contrast to global AI themes, which tend to revolve around extensive investments, frontier model breakthroughs, and geopolitical tensions. The report notes what...