In a landmark move at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India and the United States have forged a powerful new alliance in artificial intelligence. This partnership, dubbed the US-India AI Opportunity Partnership, emphasizes private sector leadership to propel both nations ahead in the global AI race.
The joint statement outlines ambitious goals: harmonizing regulatory frameworks, fortifying semiconductor and energy supply chains, and unleashing private innovation. Far from merely keeping pace with technological revolutions, this collaboration aims to define them. It builds directly on the Pact for Silicon Declaration, tailoring bilateral commitments to the unique strengths of the world’s two largest democracies.
Both governments share a unified vision for their innovation ecosystems, linking this AI pact to broader strategic ties like the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and the India-US Compact. The future of AI, they assert, must rest on trustworthy collaboration, economic security, and free enterprise.
Echoing the TRUST initiative launched by former President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the partnership shifts focus from fear-driven stagnation to embracing AI’s dynamic opportunities. It prioritizes innovation for human welfare, rejecting the greater risk of failing to lead in AI over its unchecked advancement.
Key pledges include growth-friendly regulations that empower builders, coders, creators, startups, and platforms to test, deploy, and scale secure AI ecosystems rapidly. The alliance targets the physical AI stack, expanding reliable energy infrastructure, boosting critical mineral production, upskilling workforces, and accelerating trusted semiconductor systems under the Pact for Silicon framework.
Driving free enterprise remains central. Governments commit to easing venture capital flows, deepening R&D collaborations, incentivizing next-gen data centers, enhancing AI computing power and processors, and fostering breakthroughs in AI models and applications. This isn’t just policy—it’s a blueprint for prosperity.
As global debates intensify over AI governance, supply chain vulnerabilities, and mineral security, this partnership signals a new era. The oldest and largest democracies unite not only to safeguard freedom but to build an AI future that enriches their people, strengthens economies and societies, and advances shared values of liberty, openness, and rule of law.