New Delhi: Microsoft chairman and chief government officer (CEO) Satya Nadella on Wednesday lauded the India’s skill to efficiently lock in what he calls a virtuous cycle that features coverage, applications, know-how stack and the broader marketplace for synthetic intelligence (AI) and made a pitch for the tech big’s AI and Microsoft 365 suite for shoppers in addition to enterprises.
In a keynote throughout his go to to India, he additionally lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management, which he says is reflective of the place the know-how goes and its impression, and harassed on the significance of giving organisations in India management over their knowledge, providing a spectrum of choices together with Public Cloud, Non-public Cloud and Sovereign Cloud, guaranteeing knowledge governance and regulatory compliance, with native storage.
Microsoft has introduced a $17.5 billion funding in India– its largest but in Asia – over the subsequent 4 years to construct AI infrastructure. Nadella met PM Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday.
“We’ll assist ability 2 million folks in India for AI,” stated Nadella, asserting the corporate’s dedication, which can give attention to smaller cities as properly.
In current days, Nadella has famous that Microsoft’s dimension as an organisation has turn into a “large drawback” at a time when constructing AI with pace is changing into essential.
The primary indicators of a distinct method in direction of constructing the AI and companies proposition for shoppers and companies, appear to be the brand new “stack” framework. “The stack is barely helpful if it is ready to bend the curve on the outcomes that all of us care about,” he stated.
As Nadella painted an image of a brand new framework, he referenced the early days of computer systems being utilized in workplaces and at properties, which he calls the PC period, and stated that was the “final time the actual frontier of organisational work actually modified as we might see productiveness good points as a result of we began utilizing digital instruments to do info work, what we describe as data work, in each enterprise course of”.
He made a pitch for the corporate’s Microsoft 365 suite, and stated that the flexibility to construct copilots for various workflows and domains is a “revolution the place all people’s utilizing it on a regular basis to vary their organisational frontier.”
Central to this story was the idea of the Agent, or as the corporate phrases it, a Copilot. Nadella described a shift away from easy chat interfaces—the place a human prompts a bot and will get a textual content response—towards “agentic workflows.” On this near-future imaginative and prescient, he believes AI acts much less like a search engine and extra like a colleague.
Microsoft Copilot, the corporate says, finds relevance for shoppers, in addition to domains together with science and well being, info work, coding in addition to internet safety options. The Microsoft 365 subscription, which incorporates apps and companies together with Phrase, Excel, SharePoint and OneDrive cloud, Groups and Outlook to call a number of, all have AI and brokers built-in in several kinds. Nadella famous the brand new Researcher, Analyst and Agent Mode choices, in addition to what he calls the “IQ Layer”.
The challenges of each earlier period of know-how was that we created many methods, and every of those methods had a knowledge system related. Sadly, the onerous impression of that was we had many knowledge silences. So one of many 4 objectives for us, as a result of we’ve these very highly effective methods of intelligence, is to one way or the other have it grounded within the context of your knowledge. A variety of onerous work has to occur,” he stated. Nadella then made a pitch to Microsoft 365 enterprise prospects with a proposition that their methods will be capable to recognise relationships between folks, together with initiatives, emails and information in addition to communications.
He additionally famous that Microsoft Foundry, the corporate’s interoperable AI platform that enables builders to construct rapidly and for organisations to take care of a degree of management, now presents a alternative of greater than 11,000 open-source and frontier AI fashions to work with. Foundry contains the App Builder, Copilot Studio and GitHub, a platform to retailer, handle and share code.
He cited a number of Indian organisations already utilizing these instruments, together with Apollo Hospitals for scientific intelligence, ONGC for enhancing operational effectivity, and Tech Mahindra. Uncommon as it’s for keynotes by tech leaders, Nadella projected his personal computing gadget to exhibit some deep analysis brokers he was engaged on, together with a choice orchestrator.
To exhibit the capabilities of this new decision-making framework, Nadella leaned into his roots with a smile, tasked the AI with a quintessentially Indian problem — choosing the right Indian cricket check staff. Cricket followers would know, that is no easy question. The demonstration confirmed using a “Determination Orchestrator” (DXO) to weigh conflicting components —recency bias, error charges, and historic knowledge. He described a “boardroom in a field” situation the place completely different AI fashions, together with OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, acted as committee members, debating decisions and checking one another’s work to remove bias. And within the case of AI, hallucinations. The outcomes are anticipated to reflect human cognitive processes, however at sooner pace.
For organisations in India, Nadella and Microsoft are pitching the sovereignty facet too. He harassed the significance of giving organisations management over their knowledge, providing a spectrum of choices from Public Cloud to Non-public Cloud and Sovereign Cloud, guaranteeing knowledge governance and regulatory compliance. He emphasised “sovereignty”—guaranteeing that as India builds its AI capabilities, the information and the intelligence stay ruled by Indian laws and values.
Microsoft is increasing its footprint in India, treating Azure as “the world’s pc.” Nadella additionally projected that by 2027, India could have the most important developer group on GitHub on the planet, overtaking the US.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM Vishal Shanker Mathur
Satya Nadella pitches India’s AI sovereignty, alongside investments and copilots
Vishal Mathur
vishal.mathur@hindustantimes.com
New Delhi: In a keynote throughout his go to to India on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised the nation’s skill to efficiently lock in what he calls a virtuous cycle that features coverage, applications, know-how stack and the broader marketplace for synthetic intelligence (AI). He additionally made a fevered pitch for the tech big’s AI and Microsoft 365 suite for shoppers in addition to enterprises. Microsoft has introduced a $17.5 billion funding in India over the subsequent 4 years to construct AI infrastructure. “We’ll assist ability 2 million folks in India for AI,” stated Nadella, asserting the corporate’s dedication, which can give attention to smaller cities as properly.
Nadella praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s management, which he says is reflective of the place the know-how goes and its impression. The $17.5 billion funding dedication for India, is Microsoft’s largest but in Asia. He additionally harassed on the significance of giving organisations in India management over their knowledge, and is providing a spectrum of choices together with Public Cloud, Non-public Cloud and Sovereign Cloud, guaranteeing knowledge governance and regulatory compliance, with native storage.
In current days, Nadella has famous that Microsoft’s dimension as an organisation has turn into a “large drawback” at a time when constructing AI with pace is changing into essential. The primary indicators of a distinct method in direction of constructing the AI and companies proposition for shoppers and companies, appears to be the brand new “stack” framework. “The stack is barely helpful if it is ready to bend the curve on the outcomes that all of us care about,” says Nadella.
As Nadella painted an image of a brand new framework, he referenced the early days of computer systems being utilized in workplaces and at properties, which he calls the PC period, and says that was the “final time the actual frontier of organisational work actually modified as we might see productiveness good points as a result of we began utilizing digital instruments to do info work, what we describe as data work, in each enterprise course of,” he famous. He made a pitch for the corporate’s Microsoft 365 suite, and stated that the flexibility to construct copilots for various workflows and domains is a “revolution the place all people’s utilizing it on a regular basis to vary their organisational frontier.”
Central to this story was the idea of the Agent, or as the corporate phrases it, a Copilot. Nadella described a shift away from easy chat interfaces—the place a human prompts a bot and will get a textual content response—towards “agentic workflows.” On this near-future imaginative and prescient, he believes AI acts much less like a search engine and extra like a colleague.
Microsoft Copilot, the corporate says, finds relevance for shoppers, in addition to domains together with science and well being, info work, coding in addition to internet safety options. The Microsoft 365 subscription, which incorporates apps and companies together with Phrase, Excel, SharePoint and OneDrive cloud, Groups and Outlook to call a number of, all have AI and brokers built-in in several kinds. Nadella famous the brand new Researcher, Analyst and Agent Mode choices, in addition to what he calls the “IQ Layer”.
The challenges of each earlier period of know-how was that we created many methods, and every of those methods had a knowledge system related. Sadly, the onerous impression of that was we’ve many knowledge silences. So one of many 4 objectives for us, as a result of we’ve these very highly effective methods of intelligence, is to one way or the other have it grounded within the context of your knowledge. A variety of onerous work has to occur,” he says. Nadella then made a pitch to Microsoft 365 enterprise prospects with a proposition that their methods will be capable to recognise relationships between folks, together with initiatives, emails and information in addition to communications.
He additionally famous that Microsoft Foundry, the corporate’s interoperable AI platform that enables builders to construct rapidly and for organisations to take care of a degree of management, now presents a alternative of greater than 11,000 open-source and frontier AI fashions to work with. Foundry contains the App Builder, Copilot Studio and GitHub, a platform to retailer, handle and share code.
He cited a number of Indian organisations already utilizing these instruments, together with Apollo Hospitals for scientific intelligence, ONGC for enhancing operational effectivity, and Tech Mahindra. Uncommon as it’s for keynotes by tech leaders, Nadella projected his personal computing gadget to exhibit some deep analysis brokers he was engaged on, together with a choice orchestrator.
To exhibit the capabilities of this new decision-making framework, Nadella leaned into his roots with a smile, tasked the AI with a quintessentially Indian problem — choosing the right Indian cricket check staff. Cricket followers would know, that is no easy question. The demonstration confirmed using a “Determination Orchestrator” (DXO) to weigh conflicting components —recency bias, error charges, and historic knowledge. He described a “boardroom in a field” situation the place completely different AI fashions, together with OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, acted as committee members, debating decisions and checking one another’s work to remove bias. And within the case of AI, hallucinations. The outcomes are anticipated to reflect human cognitive processes, however at sooner pace.
For organisations in India, Nadella and Microsoft are pitching the sovereignty facet too. He harassed the significance of giving organisations management over their knowledge, providing a spectrum of choices from Public Cloud to Non-public Cloud and Sovereign Cloud, guaranteeing knowledge governance and regulatory compliance. He emphasised “sovereignty”—guaranteeing that as India builds its AI capabilities, the information and the intelligence stay ruled by Indian laws and values.
Microsoft is increasing its footprint in India, treating Azure as “the world’s pc.” Nadella additionally projected that by 2027, India could have the most important developer group on GitHub on the planet, overtaking the US.
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