Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella is planning a visit to India in February to satisfy among the nation’s distinguished Indian A.I. startups, based on Indian monetary information web site Moneycontrol.com, citing an internal email from a number of weeks in the past. 

“A.I. is playing a game-changing role in shaping ‘India’s Techade’ and will make India and South Asia one of the most exciting markets for technology,” learn the e-mail, written by Puneet Chandok, Microsoft’s president of India and South Asia operations. 

Nadella, who was born and raised in India, final visited his dwelling nation in January 2023 to talk on quite a few Microsoft’s enterprise initiatives in India and South Asia. At a summit in Mumbai, Nadella predicted A.I. would “augment every one of us in whatever it is that we are doing.”

“Every frontline worker will be able to do more knowledge work than they ever did. Every design task, whether it’s software engineering, mechanical design, architecture, is going to be that much more productive going forward,” Nadella advised an viewers of tech leaders on the occasion. 

Also final 12 months, Nadella met with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the U.S. throughout his state go to. The Microsoft CEO promised Modi that his firm is “deeply committed to the growth of Indian technology…particularly artificial intelligence.” (Modi additionally met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai throughout his go to.)

A 12 months later, a extra urgent matter in A.I. is the protection of the know-how. According to Moneycontrol’s reporting, Nadella plans on assembly with Indian A.I. startups together with Sarvam and Krutrim, amongst different early-stage firms. Krutrim, based by Bhavish Aggarwal, just lately crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold, making it India’s first unicorn A.I. startup.

This week, Nadella condemned the tech trade for not taking A.I. “deepfakes” extra critically after A.I.-generated, sexually express photos of the singer-songwriter Taylor Swift went viral on a number of social media platforms final week. In an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt that aired immediately, he mentioned these photos had been “alarming and terrible.” 

“I think we all benefit when the online world is a safe world. And so I don’t think anyone would want an online world that is completely not safe for both content creators and content consumers,” Nadella mentioned within the interview. “So therefore, I think it behooves us to move fast on this.”