India is emerging as a pivotal force in shaping responsible and inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) development for the Global South, experts from academia and industry said at the Carnegie Global Technology Summit Innovation Dialogue 2025 on Thursday.

Speakers said India’s scale, multilingual environment and policy outreach position it uniquely to bridge global AI innovation with local needs, particularly in areas such as compute access, cultural alignment and safe deployment.

CK Cheruvettolil, Consultant at DGA–Albright Stonebridge Group, said compute capacity remains unevenly distributed across the world, limiting the Global South’s ability to adopt advanced AI. “There is computing available around the world, but it’s not evenly distributed. For the Global South to take advantage o

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