India, Feb. 19 -- The AI Impact Summit Day 4 opened with the "build" side of the story from Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways; Information & Broadcasting; and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India. He spoke about compute as shared national infrastructure, not a luxury product. At the centre of that was a common compute platform built through public-private partnership, with access to 38,000 GPUs for startups, academia, researchers and students, and 20,000 more planned.

That access theme ran through rest of the speeches as well.

It came through most sharply in Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic, who stayed focused on what happens when AI moves from novelty to daily work. His belief was optimistic. AI can grow th...