The India AI Impact Summit 2026 concluded recently on 21st February, and it was something to behold. Amidst the many controversies that made headlines, the summit also bore some positive news that highlighted the Indian AI revolution.
The AI Impact Summit took place from 16th to 21st February 2026 at the Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Inaugurated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the opening ceremony of the summit was also attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
The AI Impact Summit, although a watershed moment in Indian technology and the race to technological supremacy in 2026, faced severe criticism for not being properly organized, the use of the event for a PR drive by the Indian government, and the misrepresentation of Chinese products as Indian (which garnered a lot of undue and negative attention in the media).
But those weren’t the only news to come out of that summit. It wasn’t all doom and gloom for India at the AI summit. There were a fair few Indian companies that are making waves in the AI market, and they deserve our attention. Here is a list of five such companies:
- Shishu Maapan – Shishu Mapaan is an AI model designed to measure and estimate anthropometric measurements such as Weight, Length, Head circumference, Chest circumference, MUAC (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference), etc., of newborns of up to 42 days of age.
This app helps in the early detection of malnutrition or growth issues in newborns, which is very important for healthy development. Traditional measurement methods can be cumbersome and prone to error in some cases. This is where an app like Shishu Maapan can become extremely crucial for young mothers and child care workers.
The app transforms a simple smartphone into a powerful health assessment tool. What it does is that it analyzes a short video of a newborn, provides accurate anthropometric measurements (weight, length, chest/head circumference) in seconds, and helps identify at-risk infants immediately.
At the India AI Impact Summit, PM Narendra Modi spoke to a user, a female ASHA worker from Daman & Diu. She uses the Shishu Maapan app on her smartphone to take quick videos and track the various anthropometric measurements of the baby to control the baby’s overall healthy development.
- ai – Gnani.ai is a voice-first Agentic AI platform that helps enterprises automate millions of customer interactions across voice, chat, and workflows with zero handoffs. Some of its advantages are Omnichannel, Low Latency, custom-built SLMS, Multilingual, Flexible Deployment, and Full Stack Tech.
Their mission is to empower businesses with AI agents that automate conversations, understand context, and act in real-time. This drives better efficiency, experience, and outcomes at scale. At the AI Summit, a Gnani employee explained the app as core tech that is able to understand languages and people, and is then able to speak that language to people.
Their voice model and text-to-speech models are human-like and are still in progress. It is even possible to clone your voice and make your own voice-AI agent.
- Agrivani – Agrivani is a multilingual AI-powered chatbot that is specifically designed to support farmers by providing agricultural guidance from sowing to harvesting. Also developed by Wadhwani AI, alongside Shishu Maapan, made waves at the India AI Summit 2026 due to its low-cost, farmer-centric tool aimed at improving productivity and decision-making.
A spokesperson for Agrivani at the India AI Impact Summit explained the intention behind building this app. She said that they wanted to build an application that farmers are comfortable with and familiar with. It is also easy for them to use. A simple question in Hindi, such as “Mere Gehu Ke Fasal Me Keede Hain. Main Kya Karu?” (My Wheat Crop Has Been Infested With Insects. What Should I do?) provides you with a clear and detailed explanation as to what needs to be done.
- Sarvam AI – Sarvam AI launches Made-in-India foundational AI models, and takes the first step towards competing with ChatGPT. This was also the headline that ran in India Today about the app. At the All India AI Summit, Sarvam AI was one of the most talked about and happening counters.
Sarvam AI is developing foundational AI models from scratch and is focused on Indian languages and cultures. It deploys ultra-light ‘edge AI’ models that can run without the Internet. Designed to work across multiple Indian languages. It expands into devices such as AI-powered smart glasses and automotive assistants.
- Sandarbh AI – Sandarbh is a next-gen AI platform that transforms workflows. It processes text, images, video, and audio, and delivers intelligent, tailored output instantly. At the AI summit, it was said that it is a comprehensive AI suite for naval applications.
It has various divisions – GPT, Translation Suites, Office Tools, and Vision Tools. However, at the AI India Summit, they exhibited only one feature, the text-to-image model. In the future, however, they plan to deploy text-to-powerpoint presentation. They have an in-built Intelligent CCTV Surveillance Project, from where they get live feeds from cameras and then perform person detection, facial recognition, and spatial mapping.
Every direction of tracking can be detected in the map. Apart from this, they also have a vision chatbot, where they can push a query based on a person of interest, and we will receive a response.
With these 5 Indian AI platforms taking off at the India AI Impact Summit, India is not far behind in the AI technology race in the world. Technologically, India and Indian companies can only grow bigger from here. Onwards and upwards.
