Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, has said that India has a bright future in the field of technology. The Hyderabad native who is on a four-day visit to India further added that India would lead in the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in solving real problems. “India leads in terms of digital public goods,” he said while addressing a select gathering of India’s top CEOs at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai. India has the human capital to emerge as the AI leader.
Above all, Indians are passionate about upskilling, he added. According to LinkedIn data, India has 2x the rate of skilling.
India is the second-biggest contributor to Github, the largest base for developers across the globe. In his opinion, India would be the third-largest economy by the end of this decade. And, Cloud and AI are significant in driving economic growth. Cloud, which is in its early-to-intermediate innings, has been gaining momentum lately. India is a hub of innovation and resources for Microsoft which has been functioning in India for more than 32 years. Globally, Microsoft is investing in 60-plus regions and 200-plus data centres. In India, the tech giant is expanding its fourth data centre in Hyderabad, he said.
Nadella also listed six ‘digital imperatives’ for businesses. They include using the cloud; unifying data and applying AI models as platforms; encouraging fusion teams; upskilling the workforce; going for collaborative business processes; and prioritising security. He believes that AI models are going to accelerate human creativity and human productivity across sectors, and said that AI-powered models like ChatGPT and Dall-E would help knowledge workers enhance their productivity.
