{"id":988181,"date":"2026-01-28T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988181"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:08:42","slug":"india-well-set-to-lead-ai-adoption-growth-meta-senior-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/india-well-set-to-lead-ai-adoption-growth-meta-senior-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"India well set to lead AI adoption &amp; growth: Meta senior executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by the world\u2019s second-largest developer base and the third-largest startup ecosystem, India is uniquely positioned to lead global AI adoption and development, Meta\u2019s senior executive Sandhya Devanathan said. In an interaction with ET, Devanathan, who is Meta\u2019s vice president and head &#8211; India and Southeast Asia, said the country has become a powerhouse for AI talent with demand also growing at a rapid pace. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have nearly 800 million internet users who drive demand for AIpowered products and services, and that creates this massive, diverse, exciting market for innovation. Also, the Indian government has made AI a strategic priority,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by the world\u2019s second-largest developer base and the third-largest startup ecosystem, India is uniquely positioned to lead global AI adoption and development, Meta\u2019s senior executive Sandhya Devanathan said. In an interaction with ET, Devanathan, who is Meta\u2019s vice president and head &#8211; India and Southeast Asia, said the country has become a powerhouse for AI talent with demand also growing at a rapid pace. \u201cWe have nearly 800 million internet users who drive demand for AIpowered products and services, and that creates this massive, diverse, exciting market for innovation. Also, the Indian government has made AI a strategic priority,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}