Prime Minister Modi was on a three-day state go to to the United States, the place he has been assembly the chief executives of main international gamers together with Micron and Applied Materials, each of whom have dedicated to investing in India.
“It was an honour to meet PM Modi during the historic visit to the US. We shared with the Prime Minister that Google is investing $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund,” the Chennai-born CEO stated.
“We are excited today that we are announcing the opening up of our global fintech operation centre in GIFT city Gujarat,” Pichai added.
The Alphabet CEO additionally talked about India’s digital presence, saying that the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient for India’s digitisation was forward of its time.
“PM’s vision for Digital India was way ahead of his time I now see it as a blueprint that other countries are looking to do,” Pichai stated after his assembly with Modi.
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Pichai and Modi have shared a rapport ever for the reason that IIT-Kharagpur graduate took the reins at Google, with the pair assembly as soon as earlier than in New Delhi, final 12 months. During that go to, Pichai stated he seemed ahead to persevering with sturdy partnerships and supporting India’s G20 presidency to advance open web that works for all.The Alphabet boss added that he was trying ahead to the progress India will make with the extra $10 billion, including a couple of concepts of his personal.
“That includes our efforts to build a single, unified AI model that will be capable of handling over 100 Indian languages across speech and text – part of our global effort to bring the world’s 1,000 most-spoken languages online and to help people access knowledge and information in their preferred language. We’re also supporting a new, multidisciplinary centre for responsible AI with IIT Madras,” he stated.
Prime Minister Modi additionally met Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy and Boeing’s David L Calhoun in Washington, on the third and closing day of his go to. He left the States for Egypt on the finish of the day, concluding a groundbreaking journey.
“The most important takeaway is the PM’s passion for India’s development. He does have a specific interest in aviation, in aerospace. It is a big vision,” Boeing’s CEO Calhoun advised ANI in an interview. He emphasised the significance of India taking part in a major function not just for the nation but in addition for the broader area broadly in aviation and aerospace.
Amazon CEO Jassy expressed his dedication to producing further employment alternatives in India after his assembly with Modi. “[We’re] very interested in helping create more jobs, helping digitise more small and medium size businesses and helping more Indian companies and products be able to be exported all around the world,” stated Jassy.
With inputs from ANI
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com