India announces New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments at AI Impact Summit 2026, focusing on real-world usage data and multilingual AI evaluation to ensure inclusive global AI development.
The New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments represent a voluntary, globally-aligned effort to make AI development more inclusive and functional across different regions and contexts. (Photo: X/Rudra_81)
At the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, the government and industry leaders announced a new set of voluntary pledges called the New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments. The initiative aims to guide the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in a way that is inclusive, transparent, and globally relevant.
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw described the commitments as a “significant outcome” of the summit, bringing together leading global and Indian AI companies to focus on shared goals for responsible AI.
The framework rests on two major pillars designed to shape how AI is used in the real world:
Participating organisations have pledged to publish statistical insights based on anonymised and aggregated AI usage data. This will help governments and institutions better understand how AI impacts jobs, skills, and economic transformation without compromising individual privacy. The data could be shared either directly or through international collaborations.
According to Vaishnaw, this effort will support evidence-based policymaking and offer key insights on emerging skill requirements in the workforce.
Under the second pillar, participating tech companies will collaborate to evaluate AI systems across different languages and cultural contexts. This includes developing flexible tools and benchmarks to assess AI performance in underrepresented languages and regions.
Vaishnaw said this commitment was especially vital for the Global South, ensuring AI technologies work effectively across diverse linguistic and cultural settings.
The New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments highlight privacy safeguards, inclusivity, and global relevance in artificial intelligence. By encouraging the publication of anonymised usage insights and broadening the scope of AI evaluation, the framework seeks to make AI development more transparent and equitable.
“Together these efforts mark an important step towards shaping AI that is not only powerful, but also inclusive, development-oriented and globally relevant,” Vaishnaw said.
The announcement was made at the summit, which has drawn global tech leaders and policymakers, including figures such as Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others. After the announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined these leaders for a group photograph, underscoring the global significance of the commitments.
The summit — hosted from February 16 to 20 at Bharat Mandapam — is centred around three thematic pillars: People, Planet, and Progress, reflecting India’s vision to harness AI for broad societal benefit.
The New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments represent a voluntary, globally-aligned effort to make AI development more inclusive and functional across different regions and contexts. By focusing on real-world data insights and multilingual evaluation, India aims to foster AI systems that not only drive innovation but also address real social and economic challenges.
With this framework, the summit positions India as a leader pushing for Global South-led perspectives on AI governance, balancing technological advancement with ethical and cultural considerations in artificial intelligence.
