India has joined the Pax Silica initiative by becoming a signatory to the Pax Silica Declaration at a special event held on the margins of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
India also signed a Joint Statement on the ‘India-US AI Opportunity Partnership’ as a bilateral addendum to the Declaration.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that the documents were signed by Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, S. Krishnan; US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, and US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Jacob Helberg.
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.
Through the Joint Statement on the AI Opportunity Partnership, India and the United States aim to promote pro-innovation regulatory approaches, strengthen the physical AI stack, and advance free enterprise.
The partnership envisions empowering AI developers, startups, and ecosystem enablers; exploring joint research and development; facilitating industry partnerships and investments in next-generation data centers; enhancing cooperation on access to compute and advanced processors; and accelerating innovation in AI models and applications.
Pax Silica Initiative
The Pax Silica Initiative is a US-led, coalition-based partnership launched in December 2025 to secure global supply chains for artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and critical minerals. The coalition includes the US, Greece, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands, the UAE, Qatar, and Australia.
The UAE and Qatar are key GCC members of this coalition, joining to foster AI-driven growth, reduce dependency on fragile supply chains, and build trusted technology infrastructure.
