India-Japan AI Cooperation Framework
The Prime Ministers of India and Japan have established a comprehensive partnership in Artificial Intelligence, recognizing AI as an era-defining technology with transformative implications for economies, societies, and international order. The cooperation aims to build a safe, secure, trustworthy, inclusive, human-centric, sustainable, accountable, and innovation-oriented AI ecosystem while enhancing both countries' resilience and competitiveness.
International Governance and Cybersecurity Cooperation
The two leaders reaffirmed the importance of an international AI governance framework centered on safe, secure, and trustworthy AI that supports responsible innovation. They emphasized the significance of the Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) and its international guiding principles and codes of conduct for advanced AI systems. They highlighted principles from the Guidance Note on AI Governance prepared during the India AI Impact Summit by the Safe & Trusted AI Working Group, which Japan co-chaired. Both countries will strengthen coordination in international forums including G20, OECD, Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), and the United Nations, welcoming the first UN Global Dialogue on AI governance. They committed to deepen cooperation within the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group and Partners Community, promoting implementation of the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group Action Plan 2026.
The partnership includes strengthening cooperation on AI model evaluation, capability assessment, guidelines, tools, and benchmarks throughout the AI lifecycle. Institutions are encouraged to cooperate through Trusted AI Commons, a collaborative platform announced during the India AI Impact Summit. The leaders also recognized the cyber capabilities of frontier AI models and decided to strengthen cooperation on AI-enabled cybersecurity and security of AI systems, particularly for critical infrastructure, with attention to protecting children's safety in AI development and deployment.
Infrastructure and Human Resource Development
The partnership elevates India and Japan as strategic research and development partners in AI, focusing on building resilient, diversified, and trustworthy supply chains of the AI technology stack. Cooperation will include secure digital infrastructure for AI, including data centers, GPU and other compute resources, and semiconductors, with joint assessment of opportunities and vulnerabilities from an economic-security perspective. They emphasized advancing the FOIP Digital Corridor Initiative to strengthen digital connectivity and resilient AI supply chains.
Three significant memorandums were signed: an MOU between Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, BharatGen Technology Foundation, and National Institute of Informatics (NII/ROIS) for joint research and development of large language models (LLMs); an MOU between Sarvam and Preferred Networks for cooperation across the full AI technology stack; and an MOC between India AI and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to support AI development companies from both countries.
The human capital component includes a commitment to invite 500 highly skilled AI professionals from India to Japan by 2030, promoting joint research, internships, employment opportunities, and other pathways. This supports the goal set during the India-Japan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue in January 2026. The partnership will encourage Japanese companies to expand AI-related R&D, innovation, and industry partnerships in India while supporting professional development and mobility of Indian talent to Japan.
AI for Inclusive Development
The leaders endorsed the 'AI for All' vision from the New Delhi Declaration adopted at the India AI Impact Summit, aiming for AI to benefit all humanity, support inclusive and sustainable development, and improve public service delivery. They committed to work with like-minded countries and partners to support AI capacity building, technical assistance, knowledge sharing, and use-case replication while respecting national laws and priorities. Japan announced it will host an AI Summit at the earliest opportunity, which Prime Minister Modi welcomed and supported.