India's AI Strategy: Global Leadership Through Inclusive Innovation & 'India Advantage'

• HCLTech CEO C. Vijayakumar highlighted India's unique ability to 'get things done' as its potent asset in the global AI race at the Global AI Lens Soirée.
• India's AI strategy focuses on solving 'first mile' (security, trust) and 'last mile' (organizational change) problems, leveraging the 'India Advantage' for democratized knowledge.
• Sweden's Deputy PM Ebba Busch praised India as the fastest-growing AI market, crediting PM Modi's leadership for the first AI Summit from the Global South.
• Tamil Nadu IT Minister P. Thiagarajan emphasized government's role as an enabler, focusing on linguistic equity and local language models for inclusive AI.
• Debjani Ghosh of NITI Aayog stressed AI as a structural transformation, advocating for foundational skills to build an adaptable mindset for an inclusive AI ecosystem.