Microsoft Pledges $50 Billion to Address Growing AI Inequality at India AI Impact Summit

Summary

At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 18, 2026, Microsoft announced a $50 billion commitment to address AI inequality, warning of a growing divide between AI adoption in high-income and low-income nations. The summit, hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, convened over 110 countries and drew Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), and Sundar Pichai (Google), with Pichai delivering a keynote on February 20. The scale of the summit — described as the first global AI summ