Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai Reports That The Company Will Invest $10 Billion In India’s Digitization After Meeting PM Modi
Washington: Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday that Google is spending USD 10 billion in India’s digitisation fund and that PM Modi’s goal for Digital India serves as a model for other nations after meeting with him in Washington, DC.
It was an honour to meet PM Modi during his historic tour to the US, Pichai stated after their meeting. We informed the Prime Minister about Google’s USD $10 billion investment in India’s digitization fund.
Pichai continued, “We are excited today that we are announcing the opening up of our global fintech operation centre in GIFT city Gujarat.”
In the Gandhinagar district of Gujarat, India, there is a notable central business district being built called Gujarat International Finance Tec-City.
After meeting Prime Minister Modi, Google CEO Sundar Pichai remarked, “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 joined Google in 2004 and was appointed CEO in 2015. He had received congratulations from PM Modi on being named CEO.
In December of last year, Sundar Pichai met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and praised him for accelerating technological change. Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, expressed his eagerness to maintain solid alliances and support India’s G20 leadership in order to create an open internet that benefits everyone.
Pichai attended the 8th edition of the Google for India event while he was in India last year, along with Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of railways, communications, and electronics and information technology.
According to the Google CEO, he is in India to observe the results of our USD 10 billion, 10-year India Digitization Fund (IDF) and to offer new strategies for advancing India’s digital future.
In order to help people access knowledge and information in their preferred language, we are working to create a single, unified AI model that can handle over 100 Indian languages across speech and text. This is a part of our global initiative to bring the 1,000 most-spoken languages online. Along with IIT Madras, we’re funding a brand-new, multidisciplinary institute for ethical AI, according to Pichai.
Notably, Project Relate is an app that can comprehend non-binary communication from speakers. The app is accessible to Hindi users in early 2023 and has the ability to listen, repeat, and understand.
For those who desire it, search results pages in India will be bilingual; the feature is already present in Hindi. Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and Bengali language support for this function will be added soon. Hinglish speakers can now be understood better by voice search. utilising a novel neural network model that takes into account the user’s accent, situation, etc.,” he noted.
In Washington, DC, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Andrew Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, and David L. Calhoun, the CEO of Boeing. Modi is currently on a State visit to the US.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Boeing CEO David L. Calhoun stated, “The most significant lesson is the PM’s passion for India’s development. He does have a particular interest in aircraft and aviation. The vision is expansive.
He emphasised the significance of India’s contribution to aviation and aerospace, both for the nation and the region at large.
In contrast, following a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC, Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy pledged to create more jobs in India.
Jassy expressed her desire to support efforts to increase the number of employment created, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that are digitalized, and the number of Indian businesses and products that may be exported internationally.
