India, Feb. 19 -- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, reasserts a belief that the exponential growth of AI over the past few years means "we're increasingly close to a country of geniuses in the data centre". Amodei drew chronological significance of the summit in New Delhi, the fourth iteration worldwide, since the first edition at Bletchley Park in 2023. Amodei thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing together tech and political leaders, to be part of the New Delhi Frontier AI Impact commitments, and noted the ambition he has noted across India in recent days.

Amodei says, "AI agents that are more capable than most humans at most things, and can coordinate at superhuman speed,...