- ADVANTA(I)GE INDIA project is designed to accelerate the country’s AI transformation and getting 2m people for jobs in artificial intelligence by 2025.
- The technology giant will work with domestic company Sarvam AI, which provides a large language model targeting Indic languages.
India is now the fastest-growing market on the company’s software and collaboration platform GitHub, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.
13.2 million developers in India are using GitHub, with the nation having the second-highest number of GenAI projects on the platform after the US, he said at an event in Bengaluru, addressing 1,100 developers and technology leaders.
He predicted that India is likely to surpass the US as the largest developer community by 2027.
He highlighted the pivotal role of India’s developer community in building “cutting-edge” products and solutions on GitHub.
Microsoft announced an initiative to train citizens in small cities and striking a partnership with a start-up in the country to develop voice-based generative AI (GenAI) applications.
Digital transformation
Dubbed ADVANTA(I)GE INDIA, the project is designed to accelerate the country’s AI transformation, mainly targeting small cities and rural areas, and ready workers, about two million, for jobs in artificial intelligence by 2025.
Training will be delivered through partnerships with government, nonprofits and businesses across India.
Meanwhile, Nadella expressed his excitement about the work being done by Indian start-ups such as Sarvam AI and also mentioned the efforts being made in India by Shiksha Copilot and the Open Healthcare Network.
The technology giant will work with domestic company Sarvam AI, which provides a large language model targeting Indic languages.
The duo aim to develop, deploy and distribute GenAI apps on Microsoft’s cloud services including Azure OpenAI.
Sarvam AI has raised $41 million in funding to date from three venture capital companies.