India's Path to an AGI-Enabling Ecosystem
20 February 2026
9:30 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, Auditorium — Shakuntalam Banquet
IndiaAI Mission
Speakers
Suvrat Bhooshan
Co-Founder, Chariot · Session Host
Shri Ghanshyam Prasad
Chairperson, Central Electricity Authority
Tarun Dua
Founder & MD, E2E Cloud
Prof. Jayadeva
GSV Chair, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Parth Sarthi
Co-Founder, Chariot
About the Session
At the India AI Impact Summit, Chariot hosted a packed session on what it takes to create an ecosystem capable of supporting frontier-scale AI research and sovereign foundational models in India. The conversation drew founders, researchers, and policymakers into a practical discussion that ran 30 minutes over schedule.
The core takeaway was clear: frontier intelligence from India is an ecosystem play. India cannot rely only on imported models running on borrowed infrastructure; it must own the power, compute, research, and talent pipeline required to train and deploy sovereign models.
Key Themes
Energy: Shri Ghanshyam Prasad explained the shift from megawatt to gigawatt-scale data centers, and how the national grid is preparing for massive, spiky AI power loads with a heavy focus on green energy.
Compute: Tarun Dua shared how India is democratizing advanced GPU access and moving from IT services for the world to architecting AI infrastructure from India.
Research: Prof. Jayadeva emphasized that retaining India’s brightest minds requires deeper industry-academia collaboration that turns theoretical research into commercial technology.
Models: Parth Sarthi unpacked the reasoning revolution and India’s advantage in building complex reinforcement learning environments through its unmatched diversity of domain experts.
Session Recording
Knowledge Partner
Chariot