India has formally joined Pax Silica, the U.S.-led initiative focusing on securing supply chains for advanced technologies, including semiconductors, AI infrastructure, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, and data infrastructure. The announcement came from a special event hosted at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where India additionally signed a joint statement on the India-U.S. AI Opportunity Partnership in the presence of U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth and Energy, Jacob Helberg, and the White House Director of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios.
Designed as an end-to-end initiative that aligns policy across the full technology stack, Pax Silica spans everything from rare-earth mining and refining to chip manufacturing and their deployment in AI foundation models and data centers. India is now the 12th nation to join Pax Silica alongside Australia, Greece, Israel, Japan, Qatar, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
