10 January, 2026
New Delhi –
Build Real Solutions, Not ‘AI Toys’ India’s Tech Future Demands Purpose.
India’s startup scene has grown to be one of the most active centers of innovation in the world. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a clear message to young innovators: don’t spend your talent on “AI toys” as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the new buzzword. Create solutions that are really important.
In the run-up to the IndiaAI Impact Summit in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a closed-door meeting on January 8, 2026, at his residence with 12 leading Indian AI start-up founders — all part of the IndiaAI Mission ecosystem — just weeks before the India AI Impact Summit 2026
Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian AI entrepreneurs to concentrate on developing significant, practical AI solutions rather than surface-level apps, which he referred to as “AI toys” tools that may appear glamorous but don’t really address significant problems or scale across a variety of needs. He stressed that startups are the “co-architects of India’s future” and must develop AI that is moral, impartial, transparent, and based on data privacy principles, reflecting India’s linguistic and cultural diversity, at a high-level roundtable with twelve domestic AI innovators prior to the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Modi stated unequivocally that India should not just follow trends but also develop economical, accessible, and inclusive AI models that can serve millions of people in all languages and geographical areas and support the Made in India, Made for the World goal.
He emphasized three main aspects in the middle of his speech:
- Think big and address genuine problems, not simply neat prototypes.
- Make sure AI outputs are transparent, safe, and trustworthy so people can rely on them.
- Take local use cases to the international arena to highlight India’s capabilities.
In order to make Indian AI a reliable force on the global stage, he urged entrepreneurs to go beyond gimmicks and create technology that actually improves lives and economies, rather than inhibiting innovation.
Because in the end, technology is only powerful when it serves people – not when it just looks good on a screen.
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