en.Wedoany.com Reported - India and Japan have further expanded their cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, announcing on Thursday that they will jointly build a "safe, reliable, trustworthy, inclusive, human-centric, sustainable, responsible, and innovation-oriented" AI ecosystem covering the entire technology stack.
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri stated during Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's three-day official visit to India that artificial intelligence has become a "major sunrise area" in bilateral cooperation. Misri noted that the two countries share a common vision in AI governance, innovation, infrastructure, and applications. Following a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Japanese Prime Minister, the Joint Statement on India-Japan AI Cooperation was released.
The joint statement recognizes AI as a "defining general-purpose technology" that is reshaping economies, societies, science, governance, industry, and security. Both sides agreed that the choices made today in AI design, development, deployment, and governance will have long-term impacts on innovation, social welfare, economic security, and the international order. The two countries agreed to advance cooperation to enhance resilience and competitiveness, while promoting innovation and growth.
On the governance front, both sides reaffirmed the importance of building a global AI framework centered on "safety, reliability, trustworthiness, robustness, and inclusiveness," emphasizing that governance should be "risk-balanced, participatory, informed, proportionate, interoperable, and adaptable." The two countries will continue to support the Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP) and strengthen coordination in multilateral forums such as the G20, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and the United Nations. The statement stressed that relevant cooperation should align with India's MAHASAGAR vision and Japan's updated "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" (FOIP) framework, including strengthening AI cooperation with like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific region and the Global South.
Both sides also emphasized strengthening cooperation across the entire AI lifecycle, covering model evaluation, capability assessment, benchmarking, and safety tools. The statement noted that frontier AI systems pose both defensive and misuse risks, and called for risk-based assessments of advanced systems and the establishment of trusted access mechanisms. Under the consensus that cyberspace is a "global public good," both sides advocated for collaborative development of safer AI systems.
In terms of infrastructure, India and Japan agreed to enhance cooperation on secure digital ecosystems, involving data centers, GPU capabilities, semiconductors, and AI computing resources, and plan to assess vulnerabilities in the AI technology stack from an "economic security perspective." Both sides welcomed relevant efforts under the FOIP Digital Corridor initiative.
Regarding model research and development, the two countries agreed to promote collaboration on multilingual, open-source, and domain-specific AI models. The statement highlighted the cooperation between BharatGen at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) on multilingual scientific large language models, as well as the collaboration between Sarvam AI and Preferred Networks on full-stack AI development. Both sides also encouraged cooperation in AI-driven scientific discovery and advanced research under the AI for Science (AI4S) network mechanism.
In talent development, both sides agreed to deepen industry-academia-research collaboration and talent exchange within the AI ecosystem. Japan recognized India's "strong AI talent capital" and welcomed expanded cooperation between Japanese companies and Indian institutions. Both sides reaffirmed the goal of inviting 500 highly skilled Indian AI professionals to work in Japan by 2030, and supported the expansion of joint research, internships, and employment opportunities.
The two leaders emphasized the need to create scalable AI solutions through collaboration among governments, startups, academia, and industry, and encouraged the use of the Global AI Impact Commons platform to promote successful cases. Under the vision of "AI for All," both sides committed to ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity, supports inclusive and sustainable development, and improves public service delivery. The statement also welcomed Japan's announcement of an early AI summit to further strengthen bilateral technological cooperation.
