India AI Summit closes with 88-country New Delhi Declaration and $200B in pledges

India's AI Impact Summit concluded with 88 countries and international organizations adopting the New Delhi Declaration, a non-binding agreement on inclusive AI development. Both the US and China endorsed the declaration. Over $200B in investment commitments were announced during the five-day event, the first global AI summit held in the Global South. The declaration calls for democratizing AI access and expanding its role in healthcare and education, but sidestepped how computing power and frontier model expertise remain concentrated in a handful of economies. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and 20+ heads of state attended.

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