India Is Becoming Big Tech’s New AI Power Base
India has millions of engineers skilled in machine learning and data science.
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It took two months for Microsoft’s Satya Nadella to outshine Google’s Sundar Pichai. In less than a day, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has pulled ahead in the race. Between them, India is set to receive $67.5 billion in investments over the next 5 years — a large chunk of which will be towards building AI infrastructure and tools.