{"id":76438,"date":"2026-02-21T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/20\/india-delhi-summit-ai-technology-us-economic-growth"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:25:08","slug":"ai-hit-india-hungry-to-harness-us-tech-giants-technology-at-delhi-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76438","title":{"rendered":"AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants\u2019 technology at Delhi summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world\u2019s biggest democracy<\/p>\n<p>India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, \u201cearly versions of true super intelligence\u201d could emerge, Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, said this week.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a looming coincidence that raised a charged question at the <a href=\"https:\/\/impact.indiaai.gov.in\/\">AI Impact summit<\/a> in Delhi, hosted by India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi: can India avoid returning to the status of a vassal state when it imports AI to raise the prospects of its 1.4 billion people?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/20\/india-delhi-summit-ai-technology-us-economic-growth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world\u2019s biggest democracyIndia celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, \u201cearly versions of true super inte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3492,1766,800,353,57,62,433,3243,3505,61,58,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-artificial-intelligence","category-alphabet","category-computing","category-delhi","category-google","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-openai","category-silicon-valley","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76439,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76438\/revisions\/76439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}