Microsoft CEO Nadella crowns India as AI leader

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“India is Number 1 in terms of artificial intelligence (AI) projects,” said Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday. “India is the second biggest contributor to the developer ecosystem” and will be the third largest economy by the end of the decade, Nadella added. He also emphasized the importance of managing an organization’s culture and innovating, saying “every knowledge worker is going to be more creative, more expressive, more productive. Every frontline worker will be able to do more knowledge work than they ever did.” Nadella believes that by 2025, most applications will be built on cloud-native infrastructure.

Nadella also highlighted ChatGPT, an AI-driven chatbot, and shared his vision for a tech-enabled India, stating that “the cloud will be foundational to scaling India’s digital journey” and that Microsoft is “innovating across the tech stack to support the country’s ecosystem of developers, start-ups and companies across every industry.”