Sundar Pichai also praised the Prime Minister’s vision for Digital India, the flagship campaign of the Modi-led government, stating that it was ahead of its time and that other countries are following it.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday said that the tech major will open its global fintech operation centre in Gujarat and invest $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund. He made this announcement after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington earlier in the day.
“It was an honour to meet PM Modi during the historic visit to the US. We shared with the prime minister that Google is investing $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund. We are announcing the opening of our global fintech operation centre in GIFT City, Gujarat,” Pichai was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
He added: “We are continuing to invest through that, including in companies working on artificial intelligence. As part of that, we have a 100-language initiative. We are bringing bot to more Indian languages very soon.”
The Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, which is popularly known as the GIFT city, is in Gandhinagar.
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He also praised the Prime Minister’s vision for Digital India, the flagship campaign of the Modi-led government. He said that the digital campaign is a blueprint that other countries are looking to adopt. “The PM’s vision for Digital India was way ahead of his time and I now see it as a blueprint that other countries are looking to do,” he said.