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印度人工智能促进经济与社会福祉:面向企业家、创作者与地方经济的包容性增长

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印度人工智能促进经济与社会福祉:面向企业家、创作者与地方经济的包容性增长

Scaling Inclusive Growthfor Entrepreneurs, Creators, Hilary Carter,The Linux FoundationAnna Hermansen,The Linux Foundation February 2026 AI for Economic and Social Good in India India has thehighestyear-over-year AI hiringrate globally, providingunmatched resources toaddress talent shortages India hasone of theworld’s largest startupecosystems, with 200,000+startups as of end-2025,and it ranked4th globally India's AI market hasgrown from 3.2 billionUSD in 2020 to 6 billionin 2024, and is expected India’syoung and digitallynative populationallowsfor faster and higher 76%of Indian startups havebuilt their solutions usingopen source AI, relyingon low-cost and highly Public-private collaborationsthrough the Skill India DigitalHub have built the tools AI toolingenables creatorsto dramatically reduce thecost of production andbuild culturally and Multilingual modelssuchas Bhashini and Sarvam AIare critical forinclusiveeconomic growthby MeTProAIsummarizesstandard treatmentprocedures based on a Adalat AIapplies AI modelsand tooling to courtroomworkflows, improving judicialthroughput, reducing delays, Farmers for Forestssupports smallholder farmersto convert a portion of their Responsible AI developmentin India involves encouragingand expanding small business Contents Executive summary������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 04 Conclusion and policy recommendations����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������23 References����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������25 About the authors������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������30 The report highlights AI’s productivity-enhancing effectsacross the workforce and its potential to mitigate structuralinequalities when paired with targeted skilling initiatives. Indiahas a highly technical population that represents a significantgrowth area for the economy, with the highest year-over-year AI India’s global leadership in the artificial intelligence (AI)landscape is distinguished by large-scale public investmentand prioritization that supports rapid experimentation and India’s AI market has expanded rapidly, growing from USD 3.2billion in 2020 to USD 6 billion in 2024, with projections nearingUSD 32 billion by 2031. This growth is underpinned by one of thelargest startup ecosystems in the world, strong global demandfor Indian technical talent, and sustained government leadership Sectoral case studies in agriculture, healthcare, the legal system,and the creator economy illustrate how AI is already deliveringmeasurable social and economic benefits. Examples include The report concludes that India has a role to play in adoptingand shaping global norms for responsible, open, and equitableAI development. Realizing this potential will require sustained The majority of Indian startups build on open models and tools,enabling cost-effective innovation, customization for localcontexts, and greater transparency. Open source AI is especiallycritical for small and medium-sized enterprises, public-sectordeployments, and sovereign AI initiatives, where data sensitivity, Introduction On the Instagram profile of Varun Mayya, an India-basedtechnology entrepreneur and content creator, a pinned videofeatures an excerpt from a podcast conversation with a leadingfigure in the global AI industry. In the clip, he comments on AI India’s distinctive position in the global AI landscape is noaccident. It combines a $200-billion-plus IT services industryembedded in the world’s digital economy, one of the world’s Other senior executives from major AI platforms have madesimilar observations about usage trends in the country. Oneexecutive noted publicly that India has become the fastest-growing market for image creation on a widely used generativeAI platform and described the range of visual content being Yet scale cuts both ways. The same diversity and breadththat make India’s AI opportunity so compelling also createchallenges around access to compute, uneven digital literacy,language inclusion, data governance, and the risk that benefitsconcentrate in urban centers and large enterprises. What Taken together, these statements illustrate how globaltechnology leaders are observing and tracking the country’sevolving role in the broader AI ecosystem—prompting furtheranalysis of the factors shaping adoption, innovation, and impactin India. These observations resonate strongly with what Linux This report draws on existing literature and semi-structuredinterviews with a dozen leaders across sectors in India, eachof whom are using AI to cost-effectively create new levels ofoper