{"id":994039,"date":"2026-02-20T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994039"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:45:33","slug":"ai-impact-summit-pichai-bets-15-billion-on-indias-ai-future-calls-it-the-biggest-platform-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/ai-impact-summit-pichai-bets-15-billion-on-indias-ai-future-calls-it-the-biggest-platform-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Impact Summit: Pichai bets $15 billion on India\u2019s AI future, calls it the \u2018biggest platform shift\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the stage at the AI Impact Summit on Thursday, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google and Alphabet Inc., outlined an ambitious expansion of the company\u2019s artificial intelligence footprint in India, anchored by a $15 billion infrastructure investment and a new full-stack AI hub in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Calling AI \u201cthe biggest platform shift of our lifetimes,\u201d Pichai positioned India at the centre of Google\u2019s next phase of growth, combining gigawatt-scale computing power, subsea connectivity and workforce training to drive what he described as \u201chyperprogress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the stage at the AI Impact Summit on Thursday, Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google and Alphabet Inc., outlined an ambitious expansion of the company\u2019s artificial intelligence footprint in India, anchored by a $15 billion infrastructure investment and a new full-stack AI hub in Andhra Pradesh. Calling AI \u201cthe biggest platform shift of our lifetimes,\u201d Pichai positioned India at the centre of Google\u2019s next phase of growth, combining gigawatt-scale computing power, subsea connectivity and workforce training to drive what he described as \u201chyperprogress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994039","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}