Dec 9, 2025 – Microsoft announces a $17.5 billion investment in India over 2026‑2029, its largest in Asia, targeting AI infrastructure, sovereign‑cloud services and a mid‑2026 hyperscale data centre; the plan follows a prior $3 billion commitment and aims to double its skilling programme to 20 million people by 2030 [13].

Dec 10, 2025 – Amazon declares a $35 billion AI‑driven expansion in India through 2030, building on $40 billion already invested, to boost cloud services, digitisation and create about one million jobs while aiming to raise exports to $80 billion [11].

Dec 10, 2025 – Satya Nadella says he is thrilled about new data‑centre capacity in Pune, Chennai and Mumbai and confirms a $17.5 billion sovereign‑cloud investment, discussing the plan with Prime Minister Modi and targeting a Hyderabad region live by mid‑2026 [12].

Dec 10, 2025 – Amazon and Microsoft jointly pledge $52.5 billion for AI in India, with Amazon committing $35 billion by 2030 and Microsoft $17.5 billion that includes a new Hyderabad hyperscale cloud region slated for mid‑2026; Modi posts “When it comes to AI, the world is optimistic about India” after meeting Satya Nadella [2].

Dec 30, 2025 – The Principal Scientific Advisor releases a white paper urging open access to AI compute, datasets and tools, linking India’s AI Mission GPU pool and proposing integration of Aadhaar and UPI into AI systems; the paper warns that data‑centre footprints could reach 45‑50 million sq ft and consume up to 3 % of national electricity by 2030 [10].

Feb 16, 2026 – Data show India generates 5.8 % of global Claude.ai conversations, second only to the U.S., but per‑capita adoption ranks 101st of 116 countries, with half of activity concentrated in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Delhi; users achieve roughly 15× speed‑ups on software tasks, indicating strong trust in autonomous AI [14].

Feb 17, 2026 – The AI Impact Summit convenes in New Delhi, gathering CEOs, politicians and activists; Bill Gates confirms his keynote, underscoring the event’s prominence, while Indian workers continue to label data for modest salaries and major chatbots cover only half of the nation’s 22 official languages [1].

Feb 18, 2026 – Microsoft pledges $50 billion to bring AI capabilities to the Global South by 2030, focusing on data‑centre construction and broadband expansion; Brad Smith and Natasha Crampton warn that AI adoption remains “profoundly uneven” and call for cross‑border partnerships [3].

Feb 18, 2026 – The summit aligns with the World Day of Social Justice, highlighting human‑centred AI; India leads global ChatGPT usage and projects over three million new AI jobs by 2030; the ILO partners with India to study AI exposure, and Microsoft’s $17.5 billion commitment powers the e‑Shram platform that now covers 64.3 % of informal workers [6].

Feb 19, 2026 – Prime Minister Modi unveils the MANAV Vision, a human‑centric AI governance framework defined by moral, accountable, national‑sovereign, accessible and valid principles, positioning India as a model for ethical AI [5].

Feb 19, 2026 – Sundar Pichai announces a full‑stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam with gigawatt‑scale compute and an international subsea‑cable gateway, part of Google’s $15 billion India plan and four new U.S.–India fibre systems, stressing that AI must be “hyper progress” that lets emerging economies leapfrog [7].

Feb 19, 2026 – U.S. tech giants reveal major AI infrastructure deals: Google commits subsea cables to Singapore, South Africa and Australia; Nvidia partners with three Indian cloud firms and L&T to build a gigawatt‑scale AI factory; India targets over $200 billion of AI investment through 2028, with roughly $90 billion already pledged [8].

Feb 19, 2026 – Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani pledges a ₹10 lakh crore (≈$120 billion) AI fund over seven years, describing AI as a path to “superabundance,” while Tata Group announces AI‑optimized automotive chips leveraging Indian data [5].

Feb 20, 2026 – India signs the U.S.-led Pax Silica declaration on AI and supply‑chain security at the summit, with the U.S. ambassador calling it a “coalition of capabilities”; Google CEO Sundar Pichai urges the partnership to make AI benefits universal and announces new subsea cables to boost South‑Asia connectivity [4].

Feb 20, 2026 – Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis launches a statewide interoperable agriculture data exchange using open standards, linking it to the India AI Mission and a World Bank partnership to empower farmers [4].

Feb 20, 2026 – The AI Impact Summit’s expo extends to Feb 21, allowing students and professionals additional access under flexible security arrangements [4].

Mid‑2026 (future) – Microsoft’s Hyderabad hyperscale cloud region goes live, delivering sovereign public‑cloud services and supporting the AI Mission’s skill‑building targets [2][13].

2026‑27 (future) – India’s Union Budget creates a High‑Powered “Education to Employment and Enterprise” standing committee to assess AI’s impact on jobs, embed AI education from school level and enable AI‑driven worker‑job matching [6].

By 2028 (future) – India expects to attract more than $200 billion in AI‑related investments, with $90 billion already pledged by foreign and domestic firms, driving the country toward the third spot in global AI competitiveness rankings [8].