India has joined the Pax Silica initiative and become a signatory to the Pax Silica Declaration. India also signed a Joint Statement on the "India-U.S. AI Opportunity Partnership” as a bilateral addendum to the Declaration on 20 February 2026 at a special event held on the margins of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

India’s Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Shri S. Krishnan, and U.S. Ambassador to India, Mr Sergio Gor, and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Mr Jacob Helberg, signed the declaration and addendum. Present were India’s Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, Mr Michael Kratsios.

The Indian minister said a strong collaboration on supply chain security and cooperation would further deepen engagement on critical technologies and supply chain resilience under the India-U.S. Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership.

Ambassador Gor called India’s entry into Pax Silica both strategic and essential. India brings deep engineering and manufacturing capabilities, expanding capacity in critical mineral processing, and a strong trust factor, offering indispensable strengths to the coalition, said Gor.

⁠Under Secretary Helberg noted that Pax Silica partners are building a new architecture that diffuses intelligence, placing the transformative power of AI in people’s hands and unlocking unprecedented possibilities.

⁠Pax Silica seeks to build secure, resilient, and innovation-driven supply chains for technologies foundational to the AI era, particularly silicon and critical minerals that underpin semiconductors, advanced computing, and other high-technology systems.

⁠The AI Opportunity Partnership envisions empowering AI developers, startups, and ecosystem enablers; exploring joint research and development; facilitating industry partnerships and investments in next-generation data centres; enhancing cooperation on access to compute and advanced processors; and accelerating innovation in AI models and applications.

India and the US emphasised that ⁠technology cooperation remains one of the central pillars of the India-U.S. Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership. It deepens bilateral collaboration in critical and emerging technologies and reinforces the shared commitment of both countries to resilient, trusted, and future-ready supply chains.