Crucial joint announcement; India and the US emerging as key strategic partners in global AI race

WASHINGTON: The Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of India today acknowledge a shared vision for their innovation ecosystems, highlighting the relevance of the Pax Silica Declaration’s principles to the U.S.-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and India-U.S. COMPACT (Catalyzing Opportunities for Military Partnership and Accelerated Commerce and Technology) for the 21st century.

Recognizing that the 21st century is likely to be defined by the physical backbone for artificial intelligence—from critical minerals and energy to compute and semiconductor manufacturing—the two sides share the view that the future of AI should be built on a foundation of trusted collaboration, economic security, and free enterprise.

Embracing the AI Opportunity

Echoing the vision outlined by President Trump and Prime Minister Modi under the Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technologies initiative (TRUST), both sides express their desire to move beyond the paralysis of fear in favor of the dynamism of AI opportunity to promote innovation and to deploy it for human prosperity. The two sides share the belief that a significant risk facing the free world is not the advancement of AI, but the failure to lead it.

In this context, the two sides convey their intention to pursue a global approach to AI that is unapologetically friendly to entrepreneurship and innovation, and have identified the following shared priorities:

• Promoting Pro-innovation Regulation: Both sides pledge to adopt and mainstream regulatory regimes that advance technological innovation and promote investment. They aim to champion a pro-growth regulatory environment that fosters AI innovation and empowers builders, coders, creators, startups, and the platforms that enable them, in both countries to test, deploy, and scale rapidly to build secure and trusted AI ecosystems.
• Strengthening the Physical AI Stack: Both sides plan to deepen cooperation under the Pax Silica framework to support the supply chains of tomorrow. This includes exploring joint initiatives including research and development projects to expand reliable energy infrastructure, produce critical minerals, harness skilled workforces, and accelerate the development of trusted semiconductor ecosystems.
• Driving Free Enterprise: Both sides seek to foster an environment where the AI revolution is driven by the creative power of the private sector, catalyzed by robust ecosystems of developer tools and platforms that lower barriers to entry. They endeavor to facilitate cross-border venture capital flows and R&D partnerships to help ensure our democracies—and our entrepreneurs—remain the architects of the future. The two sides intend to work together to enable industry partnerships and investments in next generation data centers; to cooperate on development and access to compute and processors for AI; and to advance innovation in AI models and the development of AI applications.

This partnership signals a new era in which the world’s oldest and largest democracies stand aligned not only in defence of liberty, but in the purposeful pursuit of prosperity and harmony for their peoples. Together, the two aspire to build an AI future that serves their citizens, strengthens their economies and societies, and reflects their shared values of freedom, openness, and the rule of law.