Google’s Pichai-Indian IT Minister Discuss India Investments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (ANI) – Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on May 9 met Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google Headquarters and held a discussion on India Stack and the  ‘Make-in-India’ program.

Sundar Pichai thanked the minister for visiting Googleplex. He tweeted, “Thank you for taking the time to visit us at the Googleplex, Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw. Enjoyed discussing the many ways we’re working together on India’s digital transformation, and the opportunities ahead.”

Pichai has highlighted the investments in AI to make India’s digital economy more inclusive, helpful, and safe by introducing a multimodal AI model that covers 100+ Indian languages, and support for a new center for responsible AI at IIT Madras.

Speaking at the 8th edition of the Google for India event, with Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Communications and Electronics and Information Technology in attendance, Pichai said, “It is easy to build something which scales across the entire country and this is the opportunity that India has. There’s no better moment to do a startup, even though we are working through a macro-economic situation right now.”