NEW DELHI, Feb 20 (KUNA) -- India on Friday joined the Pax Silica Initiative and signed a joint statement on India-US AI opportunity partnership.
A statement from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that on the margins of the India AI Impact Summit underway in New Delhi, India joined the Pax Silica initiative by becoming a signatory to the Pax Silica Declaration and also inked a Joint Statement on the "India-US AI Opportunity Partnership" as a bilateral addendum to the Declaration.
Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology S. Krishnan signed on behalf of India while US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor and US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jacob Helberg signed on behalf of the US.
Indian Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw who was present on the occasion of signing pointed out the strong potential for India and the US to collaborate on supply chain security.
He also emphasized that cooperation under Pax Silica would further deepen engagement on critical technologies and supply chain resilience under the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership.
Ambassador Gor highlighted that India's entry into Pax Silica is both strategic and essential adding India brings deep engineering and manufacturing capabilities, expanding capacity in critical mineral processing, and a strong trust factor, offering indispensable strengths to the coalition.
Pax Silica Initiative which has global tech powerhouses such as the UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the UAE, and Qatar as members, 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. (end) atk.aai