India on par with rest of world in AI adoption: Nadella

India may have been slow to wake up to the four seismic shifts in technology, but not the fifth: Artificial intelligence (AI).

- Nehal Chaliawala

Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella on Wednesday said AI is the first 'platform shift' where India has kept pace with the world in the development of technology. The four previous shifts were personal computers, internet, mobile devices and cloud computing.

"This is the first time I feel what's happening in India and what's happening in the rest of the world there is no impedance (delay), there is no gap," he said, as he pitched his company's AI prowess to a packed house at the Microsoft CEO Connection event in Mumbai.

"If anything, the use cases here are so unique... and are paving their own path. And that's what's exciting. We're not just talking about AI; we're scaling AI," the Indiaborn Nadella said about the adoption of AI in the country.