Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- India is hosting one of the most consequential artificial intelligence gatherings the world has seen this week.

The event taking place in New Delhi could redefine how AI is built, governed, and shared across the developing world.

The India AI Impact Summit, which opened on Monday, 16 February, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, has drawn more than 500 AI leaders, 100 founders and chief executives, 150 academics and researchers, and nearly 400 chief technology officers, vice presidents, and philanthropists from over 100 countries.

It is the first time the global summit has been held in a developing nation - a deliberate signal that the Global South intends to move from the margins to the centre of the AI conversation....