Microsoft executive says India is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of AI deployment due to its developer base and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) India is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of global AI deployment, driven by a massive developer base, rapid enterprise adoption, and robust digital public infrastructure, according to a senior Microsoft executive.<\/p>\n
In a blog post on Tuesday, Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft, noted that developers in India are the second-largest contributors to open source globally, with more than 7.5 million contributions to AI-specific projects.<\/p>\n
Open-source projects built in India\u00e2\u0080\u0093 such as Hyperswitch, ERPNext, ToolJet and Bruno are now being utilised by developers worldwide.<\/p>\n
“The next phase of AI won’t be defined by who builds the best models, but by who can deploy them at scale with trust, speed, and real-world impact. India is uniquely positioned for that shift, and increasingly, it’s where that future is taking shape,” Parikh said.<\/p>\n
\n Highlighting the country’s rapid enterprise adoption, Parikh cited Deloitte’s 2026 enterprise AI survey, which ranks India first out of 15 countries on at-scale AI adoption.<\/p>\n
According to the survey, 40 per cent of Indian respondents report significant or full AI use, compared to a global average of 28 per cent.<\/p>\n
Underpinning this growth is India’s digital public infrastructure.<\/p>\n
“Over the past decade, India has built identity, payments, and data platforms operating at population scale. UPI, India’s digital payments system, now processes more than 20 billion transactions a month, roughly half of all real-time payments globally.<\/p>\n
“As AI converges with DPI, India is moving toward what could become the world’s first large-scale AI public infrastructure, where intelligent systems are embedded into everything from financial services to healthcare and education,” Parikh noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft executive says India is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of AI deployment due to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18317,420,7829,30951,7500,1415,320,7828],"class_list":["post-52399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-ai-deployment","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-digital-public-infrastructure","tag-enterprise-ai-adoption","tag-india","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}