New delhi: India today joined the Pax Silica initiative by becoming a signatory to the Pax Silica Declaration at a special event held on the margins of the AI Impact Summit in the city.
According to Emirates News Agency, India also signed a Joint Statement on the "India-U.S. AI Opportunity Partnership" as a bilateral addendum to the Declaration. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs stated that the documents were signed by Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, S. Krishnan; U.S. Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor; and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Jacob Helberg.
Pax Silica aims to build secure, resilient, and innovation-driven supply chains for technologies foundational to the AI era. This includes silicon and critical minerals that underpin semiconductors, advanced computing, and other high-technology systems.
Through the Joint Statement on the AI Opportunity Partnership, India and the United States aim to promote pro-innovation regulatory approaches, strengthen the physical AI stack, and advance free enterprise. The partnership envisions empowering AI developers, startups, and ecosystem enablers. It also focuses on exploring joint research and development, facilitating industry partnerships and investments in next-generation data centers, enhancing cooperation on access to compute and advanced processors, and accelerating innovation in AI models and applications.