India joins US-led Pax Silica AI supply initiative

At the second Pax Silica Summit in Washington DC on June 25-26, 2026, 35 countries signed the Declaration on AI Opportunity, a shared commitment to pro-growth AI regulation, trusted technology ecosystems, resilient supply chains, and investment in the compute and energy infrastructure of the AI economy, per ANI and The National. India, which formally joined Pax Silica on February 20, 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, was represented at the June summit by MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan, per The Print.

A prominent India-specific issue at the summit was the suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. On June 12, 2026, the US Commerce Department issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to halt access to those two models for any foreign national, inside or outside the United States. Anthropic, stating it could not filter users by nationality in real time, disabled both models worldwide. Krishnan said India sought clarity on the matter: "We can't have abrupt cutoffs," per The Print quoting ANI. The US told India that for trusted Pax Silica partners "access will not be an issue." US Under Secretary Jacob Helberg, when asked whether Fable was discussed with India, said discussions would continue but described them as "very sensitive national security discussions," per The Print.

The US announced two major initiatives at the summit. PaxPass - a $50 million US-funded platform combining cargo verification and AI risk assessment - is designed to reduce friction and streamline the movement of AI goods across Pax Silica member states, per ANI. The Foundry School, a workforce development initiative built with Stanford University, was launched to train entrepreneurs, engineers, and advanced manufacturing leaders across member economies, per ANI.

Pax Silica, launched by the US State Department in December 2025, is framed around building trusted supply chains across the full AI stack - from critical minerals and semiconductor fabrication to compute infrastructure and AI model access. India's role is significant as a large technology market with strategic leverage in critical minerals and technical talent. The Anthropic export control episode at the summit is a concrete example of the access-and-review tradeoffs that Pax Silica membership entails for partner countries.