Amid PM Narendra Modi's cisit to the United States, Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday announced internet giant Google will set up its global fintech operation ce☂ntre at GIFT City in Gujarat.
The announce꧙ment came after Pichai met🤡 PM Modi in Washington.
What did Sundar Pichai say?
"Today we are announcing the opening of our global fintech operations centre in GIFT City, Gujarat. It will cement 🎃India's fintech leadership, thanks to UPI, and Aadhaar. We are going to build on that foundation and take it globally," Pichai said.
Pic𓄧hai also said that his company continues to invest in India though its USD 10 billion India Digitisation Fundꦅ.
The Indian-origin CEO said it is e𝄹xciting to see the progress that the country has made, particularly around the vision of Digital India and the economic opportunity.
"I met the prime minister in December, and we continued our conversation. We shared that Google is investing USD 10 billion in the India digitisation fund and 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," Pichai said.
Praising PM Moℱdi, Pichai said He said that the prime minister's vision for Digital India was ah𝔉ead of its time.
"I now see it as a blueprint that other countr🌼ies are looking to do so," Pi🔯chai said.
Modi-Pichai Conversation
▨According to MEA, Prime Minister Modi invited Pichai to explore further avenues of collaboration in the domains of artificial intelligence, fintech, and cybersecurity products and services, as well as mobile device manufacturing in India.
It has been reported that they also discussed collaboration between Google and academic institutions in India to promote research and devღelopment, and skill development, the⛎ ministry added.
In July 2020, Google h🌺ad announced plans to invest USD 10 billion in India over next five to seven years as the sear🦄ch giant looks to help accelerate adoption of digital services in the key overseas market.
Mo💛di is visiting the US from June 21 to June 24 at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.
Besides Pichai, the prime minister at an interactio𒆙n with top CEOs als♊o met Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and AMD CEO Lisa Su, among others
