If you opened social media today, you probably saw the clip of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing center stage, raising the hands of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in an awkward victory pose. The moment — a confused mix of handshake and fist bump where the two leaders refused to clasp hands — quickly went viral, with Altman later calling it “sort of confusing.”
But beyond the memes, the real story unfolding at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was far bigger: a signal that Silicon Valley’s dominance in AI may no longer be guaranteed.
Here's the biggest news to come out of the summit.
