Nigeria, Feb. 23 -- When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the largest Artificial Intelligence gathering in New Delhi last week, his words carried a deliberate edge. "Design and develop in India. Deliver to the world. Deliver to humanity," he told an audience that included heads of state, chief executives of the world's most powerful technology companies, and researchers reshaping the frontier of machine intelligence.

The India AI Impact Summit drew more than 500 AI leaders, 100 founders and CEOs, 150 academicians and researchers, and nearly 400 technology executives from over 100 countries. More than 20 heads of state and government attended, along with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario A...