Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed on Friday.

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated during a press briefing that India is developing its own AI program and is engaged in discussions with multiple partners on technology collaboration.

“French President has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the AI Action Summit, and we have accepted the invite. Further details will be shared in due course,” Jaiswal said.

The AI Action Summit will be held in France on February 10-11 at the Grand Palais. According to a statement from the Élysée Palace, the summit will bring together Heads of State and Government, leaders of international organizations, business executives, academics, non-governmental organizations, artists, and members of civil society.

Jaiswal also mentioned that India is developing its own AI program and is in discussions with partners for further collaboration in the field.

“We have our own program and aim to develop it further. We are in touch with several partners with whom we engage on technology collaboration and intend to strengthen these engagements,” he said.

Meanwhile, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated on Thursday that the government is preparing to host open-source AI models on Indian servers.

“The team has finalized the necessary details, including server capacity requirements. These open-source models will be hosted on Indian servers soon,” Vaishnaw said.

This development comes in the wake of the emergence of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s open-source reasoning model R1, which has demonstrated that large-scale AI models can be developed without extensive GPU access.

(ANI)