New Delhi hosts largest global AI summit in history

Look, summits are mostly photo ops and signed documents nobody reads. But this one's different — not because of what was decided, but because of who showed up and where.

India hosting this isn't symbolic. It's a signal that the AI regulation conversation is no longer going to be written exclusively by Brussels and Washington and then handed down to the rest of the world. A billion-plus people, a massive developer workforce, and a government that's been building its own AI stack — they've earned a voice in how this plays out.

Honestly? The Global South getting a seat at this table matters for how models get trained, what data gets counted as valid, and whose languages and contexts actually get represented. These aren't abstract policy questions — they show up in whether your product works in Hindi or Swahili.

We're a small team. We're not writing international AI policy. But the frameworks that come out of summits like this eventually become the compliance requirements that end up in our contracts. Worth paying attention to who's writing them now.