UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — At the AI Summit, learning to love and fear the era of agents

Q1. At the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, which one of the following made the single largest individual investment pledge towards AI infrastructure?

  • A. Reliance Industries (USD 110 billion over seven years)
  • B. Adani Enterprises (USD 100 billion by 2035)
  • C. Tata Group (partnership with OpenAI for data centres)
  • D. NVIDIA (GPU supply expansion)

Q2. In the context of the discussions at the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, the term 'AI agent' (agentic AI) is best defined as:

  • A. An autonomous software system that perceives context, plans, and executes multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention
  • B. Any large language model that always generates text strictly in response to a single human prompt
  • C. A government-appointed official solely responsible for certifying every AI model before deployment
  • D. A hardware accelerator chip that exclusively runs AI training workloads in data centres

Q3. The India–AI Impact Summit 2026 was organised under the IndiaAI Mission by which one of the following Union ministries?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
  • B. Ministry of Science and Technology (Department of Science and Technology)
  • C. Ministry of Communications
  • D. NITI Aayog