Fast adoption, not invention, to define AI winners: Nadella

MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN AND Chief Executive Satya Nadella on Wednesday said that the winners of the global AI race will be determined by how quickly countries and companies adopt the technology rather than who invents it.

- OJASVI GUPTA

"People have studied past technological waves and found that the countries, companies, and communities that pulled ahead weren't the ones that invented the leading tech, but the ones that adopted it the fastest and used it to create the next wave of innovation," Nadella said at an event in the national capital.

Speaking a day after Microsoft announced a $17.5 billion investment in India over the next four years, Nadella warned that merely possessing advanced technology was not enough. “If you even have leading tech in the country, but you just talked about it or just consumed it but didn't use it to create other leading tech, you fall behind," he said.