PM Modi meets with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

Narendra Modi on Friday held a bilateral meeting with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

Before meeting Altman, the Prime Minister also met Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm. The meetings took place at Hyderabad House in the national capital.

Earlier, during his keynote address at the summit, Altman described the India AI Impact Summit 2026 as an important platform for global cooperation in artificial intelligence. He praised India’s rapid progress in AI adoption and its push toward sovereign AI infrastructure.

Altman said it was impressive to see how much progress had been made in just over a year. He noted that AI systems have evolved from struggling with high school-level mathematics to being capable of research-level mathematics and producing new results in theoretical physics.

He also highlighted India’s efforts to expand AI access across the country. According to Altman, more than 100 million people in India use ChatGPT every week, with over one-third of them being students. He added that India has become the fastest-growing market for Codex, OpenAI’s coding assistant tool.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Modi joined several global leaders and technology executives for a traditional “family photo” at Bharat Mandapam, marking a key moment of the summit. The photograph included prominent global tech leaders such as Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet; Sam Altman of OpenAI; Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta; and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

The meetings and participation of global tech leaders highlighted India’s growing role in shaping the future of AI at an international level.