Google For India: Read what CEO Sundar Pichai has to say on AI innovation
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was in India at the company’s flagship Google For India event, has said that Google is building a single, unified artificial (AI) model that can handle over 100 Indian languages across speech and text to help people access knowledge and information in their preferred language.
He said he flew down to India “to see progress being made from our $10 billion, 10-year India Digitization Fund (IDF).” The top executive of the company said he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss how AI can be applied in sectors like agriculture and healthcare.
Here’s what he said in a blog post:
It’s always special to come back to India, and this trip is especially meaningful as it’s my first visit back since the pandemic.