Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a digital dialogue with Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on October 16, the Prime Minister’s Office stated. Mr. Pichai and Mr. Modi “discussed Google’s plan to participate in expanding the electronics manufacturing ecosystem in India.”

Mr. Modi appreciated the corporate’s partnerships to have its Chromebook units assembled within the nation, in keeping with the PMO’s readout of the decision.

The dialogue got here forward of the corporate’s Google for India occasion on Thursday. Mr. Pichai could have knowledgeable the Prime Minister on the bulletins the corporate has lined up for the occasion; reporters are set to be briefed on Thursday morning on a key topic cited by the outline of the decision, the GPay app backed by the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

Mr. Modi additionally invited Google to contribute to the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) Summit to be held in December in New Delhi. The GPAI is a global initiative on “guiding the responsible development of Artificial Intelligence” functions, and India is one among its founding members, alongside others like Germany, France, Australia, South Korea, Singapore and the United States.