Microsoft Corp’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella shall be coming to India on February 7 and eight as a part of his annual go to to the nation with the important thing theme for 2024 set as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its alternatives.

In an inner electronic mail a couple of weeks in the past, Puneet Chandok, Microsoft India and South Asia’s President, stated that Nadella’s go to reinforces Microsoft’s dedication to making use of know-how to broaden alternatives within the nation.

“AI 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,” the e-mail stated.

In June 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, throughout his US go to, held conferences with distinguished US and Indian know-how executives, similar to Tim Cook from Apple, Sundar Pichai from Google, and Satya Nadella.

Nadella’s workplace had then launched a press release discussing his assembly with the Prime Minister.

The assertion highlighted discussions regarding harnessing the facility of know-how particularly about Artificial Intelligence and India’s capabilities.

“One important topic was the power of technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence, to help improve the lives of Indians. India is home to one of the most vibrant developer and start-up ecosystems in the world, and Microsoft remains deeply committed to the growth of Indian technology – that will impact both India and markets across the globe,” Microsoft’s assertion stated.

A 12 months in the past, CEO Nadella made a four-day official go to to India. During his go to, he met a few of the key prospects, start-ups, builders, not-for-profit organisations, and college students.

Key concentrate on AI 
Sources informed Moneycontrol that founders of some of India’s distinguished AI start-ups together with Lightspeed and Peak XV-backed Sarvam, Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI startup Krutrim, and some early-stage AI start-ups are gearing as much as meet Nadella in Mumbai and Bangalore.

However, Moneycontrol couldn’t individually confirm the start-ups that had been invited to the occasion.

Microsoft and OpenAI

The 12 months 2023 was a giant one for Microsoft and developments round Artificial Intelligence. In October 2023, Satya Nadella, within the firm’s annual letter, highlighted the corporate’s large plans for AI after its partnership with OpenAI.

In March 2023, Microsoft announced AI integrations for all of its Office 365 apps and providers. The new AI assistant known as Copilot shall be accessible in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Business Chat. The AI assistant is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 know-how, the identical framework that powers ChatGPT, Bing AI, and extra.

In May 2023, Microsoft introduced that it’s additional strengthening its partnership with OpenAI by integrating the Bing search engine into ChatGPT, a transfer aimed toward immediately competing with Google.

On November 17, 2023, in a surprising flip, OpenAI’s board dismissed Altman over a video name, accusing him of being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board”.

Three days later, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Altman, Brockman, and different OpenAI staff shall be becoming a member of the corporate’s new superior AI analysis staff. Nadella added that Altman will function the CEO of the brand new superior AI analysis staff.

As AI adoption will increase, revenues for Microsoft are anticipated to rise practically 15 p.c in its 2024 fiscal 12 months, quicker than the general tech sector, in response to information from Bloomberg Intelligence.