Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the fintech giant will open its global fintech operation centre in Gujarat and invest $10 billion in India’s digitisation fund. He made this announcement after his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington.
“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.” In his statement, he shared the far-sightedness of the PM’s vision and said “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,”.
Prime Minister during his visit to the US, upon the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden interacted with CEO of different companies that included Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra, Reliance Industries Chairman & MD Mukesh Ambani, Zerodha & True Beacon Co-Founder Nikhil Kamath, Sam Altman of OpenAI were among those who attended the meeting.
