New Delhi, November 19 (IANS). Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella will be on a three-day visit to India next month. During this time he will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Nadella’s tour will start from December 10 and he will visit Delhi as well as Bengaluru and Mumbai.
During his visit, Nadella will also meet with PM Modi as well as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav and other government officials.
According to the information, Nadella will come to Delhi on 10th December and after that he will travel to Bengaluru on 11th December and then to Mumbai on 12th December.
Nadella’s visit comes at a time when Microsoft is rapidly expanding into the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) markets.
During his last visit in January this year, Nadella had announced an investment of $3 billion in India to build cloud and AI infrastructure and support skill development programs.
At the time, he said that India was becoming a global leader in AI innovation and Microsoft wanted to help make the country “AI-first”.
During this time, Microsoft has set a target of training 1 crore more Indians in essential AI skills by 2030.
Not only Microsoft, its arch rival technology company Google is also continuously investing in India.
Google has recently announced the creation of a state-of-the-art AI Hub in Visakhapatnam, India. The company plans to invest about $15 billion in this in the next five years.
Google AI Hub in Visakhapatnam will be developed in collaboration with AdaniConnex, an Adani Group company, which includes AI data center infrastructure. This will add significant computing capacity to help drive generational change in India’s AI capabilities.
–IANS
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