India, Feb. 19 -- At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys, and Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, highlighted what Amodei described as a "duality" shaping artificial intelligence: exponential gains in model capability on one hand, and slow, friction-filled diffusion across enterprises and societies on the other.

In a session moderated by Rahul Matthan, Partner of Trilegal, the conversation focused on the widening gap between what frontier systems can technically achieve and how effectively institutions absorb them. Drawing on India's experience in scaling digital public infrastructure such as Aadhaar and UPI, the speakers examined how diffusion determines economic impact.

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