New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- India's AI conversation has changed shape. The question is no longer whether AI can work. It is whether AI can hold up once it moves into real systems: public services, enterprise workflows, and national-scale infrastructure. When AI becomes usable at scale, responsibility stops being a side constraint and becomes part of performance.

That was the starting point for the Mint Sovereign AI Summit 2026, presented by Dell Technologies, held in New Delhi on January 23 as an officially aligned pre-summit forum ahead of the India AI Impact Summit. The afternoon was designed less as a showcase and more as a working session: a concentrated attempt to clarify what sovereign AI requires when the ambition is population-scale dep...