India will be the global AI leader, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

Thomas Dohmke, chief executive officer of developer platform GitHub, recently announced his arrival in India by sharing a 2008 photo from his previous visit to Bengaluru. A lot has changed since then. In an interview with Peerzada Abrar, Dohmke said there’s incredible energy and things are moving and evolving fast in terms of infrastructure, which is a reflection of the country’s flourishing software industry. He said that India will not just be a global leader but the global leader in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). By 2027, Dohmke said India will overtake the United States as the largest software developer community. GitHub was acquired in 2018 by Microsoft in a stock deal valued at $7.5 billion. Edited excerpts: