AI Summit Live Updates: Jio and Reliance commit ₹10 lakh crore investment over seven years to build AI infrastructure

Rishad Premji said, “Technology alone is not enough for these systems to deliver value in organizations. Organizations themselves will have to invest in change .Taking people truly along, helping them adapt to new ways of working, Redesigning roles and decision making and building confidence in how AI is used. That includes reskilling people , reskilling teams to work effectively with AI tools, so that they understand outputs and exercise judgement where it matters most . When models are aligned to work flows and people are supported through the transition, AI becomes just not deployable, but it becomes sustainable at scale and that plays directly to India strength"

At the AI Impact Summit 2026, Rishad Premji, said, the real world begins when AI is introduced into large real-world organizations. In those environments, technology has evolved for many years , application landscapes are complex, data is fragmented, work flows are siloed , processes vary across Geography, Business units and regulatory regime . Decision making is rarely Uniform. Making AI work in this environment means modernizing Legacy architectures. It means curating and labelling data to create highly specialized contextualized models. It means orchestrating across agents in ways that are reliable and secure. And it means earning the confidence of security, teams, risk, leaders, regulators, and critically, the people who are expected to use the systems every day. This is where a more practical pattern has emerged. In Enterprises models designed for specific processes or decisions tend to deliver the most reliable results. When AI is closely aligned to a defined workflow, it becomes more predictable , easier to govern and more effective over time.

AI resilience is at the core of our safety strategy, even as we continue to build secure systems and address complex technical challenges. We must broaden our understanding of safety to include societal resilience. No single AI lab or system can deliver a good future on its own.

At AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Sam Altman said, “At some point on its development curve, superintelligence could be capable of doing a better job as the CEO of a major company than a human executive or conducting better research than our best scientists. As we prepare for this possibility, we are guided by three beliefs: the democratisation of AI is the only safe and viable path forward, ensuring that humanity flourishes. The centralisation of this technology in a single company or country could lead to serious risks. The desirable future, a few decades from now, must be defined by liberty, democracy, and the widespread flourishing of human agency.”

“This AI has to carry everybody; everybody must feel it. Everybody must benefit from this and that's why I think the language is very important. We want people to be able to speak to the computer in their language, in their dialect, mixing English, Hindi, Tamil, whatever. That needs to be done. I think that's a big thing. I think making agents work for people, - if you can make agents work for people, then it means more inclusion because we can get Complex things done , because you're hiding all the sophistication behind the agent"

“India is a country, which is very positive country about technology in general and AI in particular, and we need to take advantage of that and not let them down, by giving them truly transformative applications using AI, which you will see in the next two to three years"

Referring to India's experience building large public digital infrastructure Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and Chairman, Infosys said "We learned that diffusion is a technique. It's both an art and a science. It involves Institutions, it involves policy making , negotiations ,dealing with incumbents , dealing with new commers, strategies for execution. And, I think, if all the investments in AI are going to deliver value to society not just to individuals, we will have to look at diffusion pathways to take this to everyone and I think India will lead on that. That's why I've always been saying that, India should focus on becoming the use case capital of the world"

Best of AI is yet to come; world debating will AI concentrate power in hands of a few, or will it democratise opportunity for all, says Reliance Industries MD and Chairperson Mukesh Ambani at AI Impact Summit.

"With Artificial General Intelligence on horizon, we are at a threshold moment," said Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

"Being effective with AI requires not only the knowledge of AI itself but understanding its limitations. There is a huge gap between LLMs and business users inside enterprises, especially how to bring value to those users . An overcoming that gap is where a lot of value, creating opportunity is. Bridging that gap requires delivering correct systems , trusted ,verifiable reliable systems that deliver value to people.

The RIL Chairman said, "Should we act as isolated nations or united global families? Inequality will widen if AI is locked in the global north. But there is future where AI is available to all. India will emerge as one of greatest AI powers in the world in 21st century."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the real question is not what AI can do in the future, but what humanity chooses to do with AI in the present. Drawing parallels with nuclear power, the Prime Minister noted that humanity has witnessed both its destructive potential and its positive contributions. He asserted that AI too is a transformative power—if directionless, it leads to disruption, but with the right direction, it becomes a solution. PM Modi said Modi highlighted that the core purpose of the Global AI Impact Summit is to deliberate on how AI can be made human-centric rather than machine-centric, and how it can be made sensitive and responsible.