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Dear Readers,
As we journey with our colleagues across the Indian and global Open Source landscape and AI, on the “Road to the India AI Impact Summit” taking place in Delhi in February 2026, we are delighted to have led the collaboration for this new AI Openness Report. Our contributors are world-leading policy organisations and open source leaders, whose collective output as we progress towards the summit is sector-leading. We are delighted to say that the contributors included our AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan.
The importance of building understanding and leadership in openness across AI cannot be underestimated, and doing this in the lead-up to the Indian Impact Summit recognises the shift in the summits, to the global south and the importance of access for all, achievable through AI Openness.
The report includes the latest global and local data for the top 6 countries in AI, with a deep dive into the data on India and the UK, showing incredible growth in India.
Contextualised in the India landscape, as explained by the CEO of India’s FOSSUnited, the topics focused on in our thought leadership – Sovereignty and Data access – are relevant to all people of all nations. It is unsurprising, perhaps, that our consideration of data focuses on healthcare and looks to open source case studies in that space from both the UK and India.
Leading thinking on Sovereignty from Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Takshashila Institution, along with their recommendations for the Indian Government and AI practitioners from NASSCOM’s partnership on open source with FAIR Forward and the Development (BMZ), with Digital Futures Lab holding the pen. We were struck by the similarities in the open source recommendations to the Government and their similarity to those made by OpenUK back in the UK.
The OpenUK AI Openness dinner and roundtable, held when Impact Summit lead Abhishek Sing, Additional Secretary, MiETY, visited London last week, was an official pre-summit event and is also reported. We were delighted to have Dame Chi Onwurah MP join us at this dinner, along with leading contributors to open source.
Thanks to all who contributed to this report and to the team, Jennifer Barth, Zin Lwin, Vickie Birnie, Mark Kember and Martina Po for their tireless support of these initiatives, delivered by an unusually small team. And to Runa Capital and GitHub for sharing data with us.
“The Road to the AI Impact Summit: AI Openness Report”
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The Road to the AI Impact Summit London, Dinner and Roundtable, “AI Openness: Impact, Access and Innovation” Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026
Report Launch Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit
We were delighted to be accompanied by Impact Summit lead Abhishek Sing, Additional Secretary, MiETY who also contributed to the report, in the panel launch. Recording will be shared.
I will be attending the Impact Summit, as I did the Paris Action Summit, representing open source, and I look forward to being an active part of this. And I hope to see other open tech leaders joining too.
We will be engaging in community events around the summit. For those who don’t make it along, we will also be sharing an AI Openness report on the summit as we did with the Paris Action Summit.
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Best wishes,
Amanda
Amanda Brock, CEO
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