India<\/a>’s technology usage as a percentage of its GDP growth is very high and the country’s work in creating digital public goods such as Aadhaar and the Unified Payments Interface is astonishing, Microsoft<\/a> chairman Sayta Nadella said. In an interview to ET's Surabhi Agarwal<\/strong>, Javed Sayed<\/strong> and Bodhisatva Ganguli<\/strong>, the Hyderabad-born chief executive of the $198 billion US-based technology behemoth said “the next big wave” will be Artificial Intelligence and that he was excited by AR-VR (Artificial and Virtual Reality) and the Metaverse.

Microsoft-backed popular Open AI platform ChatGPT will also be integrated with several of its products including search engine Bing, he said. Nadella also spoke about the future of technology companies in a de-globalised world and how Microsoft was planning to ride through the economic uncertainty. Edited Excerpts:

What will fuel the Microsoft of the future?
<\/strong>
I focus on two things: core sense of purpose and mission of the company - because ultimately technologies will come and go. Microsoft had an identity of being a tech platform so that others can create more tech platforms. That was an opportunity in 1975. I think it's more of an opportunity in 2023, so I just want to stay grounded on that. I have always said that the next big wave is going to be AI (Artificial Intelligence). I'm still very excited about what's happening with AR-VR (artificial reality - virtual reality) and Metaverse, because the creation of a sense of presence is important.

Ultimately, I want to translate into something like computational chemistry, which we need desperately for our energy transition. But the foundation, if I look at all those three, they build on the cloud. If I look at what's happening in AI today, these large foundational models that we are talking about and are very excited about, were only possible because of the cloud and what we did in terms of very differentiated work in Azure to be able to model and train these large models. Today's technology, sometimes used well and in innovative ways, helps (give) birth (to) the technology of the future.

What role can India play in AI, quantum computing and the Metaverse?
<\/strong>
My sense of optimism for India comes in multiple ways. What's happening with India and digital public goods is nothing other than astonishing. I mean, nowhere else do I see such rigorous effort being put. I met with the people behind Bhashini. They showed me how they are converting speech to text and text to speech. In fact, they have used ChatGPT on the government documents and showed me some unbelievable capability.

Small businesses are using technology to grow, like
Senco Gold<\/a> in Kolkata, or large banks like the State Bank of India<\/a>. The Tatas<\/a>, the (Reliance<\/a>) Jios and Adanis and everyone else are all creating technology. And let's not forget the startups. Whether it is InMobi or LambdaTest or Udaan, they are all demonstrating intense usage that I have not seen before. As a percentage of GDP growth in India, technology usage is very high. Already on GitHub, the number two country is India. On LinkedIn, the rate of essentially skill profiling in India is twice the global rate. So, that shows the other aspirational side.

Can you give us a sense of Microsoft’s cumulative investment in India?
<\/strong>
It is significant. There are three ways I measure Microsoft investment in India. One is whether we are making (technology products) in India. Historically, we built products elsewhere, and we sold them here, whereas now we make products here. We have the largest development centre outside of the United States.

We have put significant capital investments in building out four large data centres and we have even partnered with
Jio<\/a>, building out their own data centre. So, we are making significant capital investment in building out essentially the modern-day factories called data centres. So that's us making (in) India, which is leading to all the others making in India. But those companies that are making in India are not just making in India, they're making for the world. We work with LambdaTest or InMobi to take them everywhere else.

Microsoft-backed ChatGPT has become hugely popular. How do we see you building products on top of these AI offerings? Is an integration with Bing in the offing? Does it put you in direct competition with Google?
<\/strong>
I like it when $10 billion-plus businesses in Microsoft, like Bing, are sort of considered somehow non-existent. So, it's a good position to be in, because you can surprise the world. We're very excited about our partnership with Open AI. It's the most successful, most real use of large models in some real-world scenarios. We partnered with Open AI to bring that to life. So, when Andrej Karpathy tweets, saying that 80% of his code is now being written by an AI like co-pilot, it's phenomenal. You will (soon) see us do more with it across all domains. Today, it's available as Azure open APIs. We'll keep expanding that because we want to make sure that these are large models that are available for every developer.

The fact that Bhashini can use GPT, that to me is as big as anything else. I want to make sure that we use it to change what happens in customer service with Dynamics in contact centres; what happens with Nuance where we have DAX today as an AI product that just completely changes the physician's works; what's happening with Office 365 and Microsoft 365. And how Microsoft Designer today uses DALL-E to help people create designs. In Power Apps you can prompt workflow automation. So, yes, we look forward to sort of seeing what's possible in every domain, including Bing.

How do technology companies function in a world order where the amount and degree of globalization seems to be decreasing?
<\/strong>
There is no question that the world is going through a new phase of figuring out what configuration of globalization works for them. I think that we as companies have to navigate what is clearly a more complicated geopolitical world. But ultimately, I want to stay focused on - how are we helping? Our license to operate in any country fundamentally exists because we create local surplus, right? I mean, take Ukraine. With Ukraine, we have a very simple principle that when anybody is being attacked on the cyber domain, we help to defend. And in the case of Ukraine, we were right there and said, “how do we help the government of Ukraine continue to function when they are under attack?”

So, to me, we want to meet the real world. We are an American company, subject to American foreign policy, but we ultimately will be tested in India (or the country we are operating in). How we are able to create local surplus, and if we do, we will have a permission to operate and if we don't, we will get kicked out and deservedly so. So that's the way I think about every country. As long as we do that, I think multinationals like us will stay grounded.

Is the plan to buy TikTok dead?
<\/strong>
I am very focused on Activision Blizzard and completing that transaction.

You said technology is a deflationary force in an inflationary world. What is your outlook for 2023? Do you think things will get worse?
<\/strong>
I'm not a macro economist, but the fundamental point I was making there was - it's sort of showtime for all of us in digital technology. To be able to say - look, here is how you can use the most valuable resource to do more with less. Therefore, fundamentally… move to the cloud. When you move to the cloud, you use less energy, that's deflation. You use it more efficiently, that's deflationary.

In fact, if you write a cloud-native app that might be 100x, sometimes better than what you may have done in your data centre. So, those are all deflationary forces that are available for people to exercise in a time of crisis. We are, like every other company, going to be subject to what the world GDP growth looks like. We're not immune to it. And we will have to adjust. I made the commitment that our operating costs are going to be in line with our revenue growth. Therefore, we will make sure we are investing in a disciplined way for the future, and we stay grounded in the fact that we need to be competitive.

Meta and Google have significant partnerships with Reliance. Do you plan to partner with more Indian conglomerates across some large areas like data centres or other segments?
<\/strong>
We are partnered with everybody. Jio has an Azure Jio region. So, they're investing significantly in our cloud. We've partnered with Adani. We just recently announced that they're going to be using Azure as their partner for all their infrastructure. They're also partnered with us in building out our data centre in Hyderabad. We are partnered with Tatas.
Tata Digital<\/a> is built completely on Azure, and we're really excited about their Super App and the progress they're making. So, the large conglomerates in India are all people that we want to make sure we co-innovate with.

The difference between us and many of our multinational competitors is that our business model requires others to use our output to create more valuable output for themselves. So, it's not creating dependence on us, but it's about creating independence with us. That's our strategy and we'll stay focused on it.

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Will you prefer to look for a strategic partner in India?
<\/strong>
I think when you are a company like Microsoft, I want to make sure that our technology gets used across the board. Anything that is going to help us reach every Indian citizen across every Indian organization on any given day is our preferred partner. I always wonder how many people are employed in the India partner channel around our technologies. Microsoft is unique.

We learn from others who came before us, but I feel no one asks the question: how many people have built businesses around this company that are successful? Having one exclusive preferred partner that we bought off for some distribution, that is not strategic for India. What is strategic is to evaluate who is investing in India to help India grow.

What role will India play in the technology of the future, especially in AI, Metaverse and quantum computing?
<\/strong>
The first thing is that there's a study (by) this Dartmouth professor called Diego Comin. He did a fantastic longitudinal study of diffusion of technology from the 1700s to, I think, he has updated it to 2020. The fundamental thing that he talks about is that you should take the latest and greatest technology and make sure that the diffusion rate of that technology inside of your country is very high. So, get it in and don't use it trivially. Use it intensely to create more value-added output.

Technology’s use in small businesses, public sector, large existing MNCs and unicorns. That's what is important. To do that, you need human capital, but that's where India already has an advantage. You take my two data points or two of the three data points of Github and LinkedIn and you add that up and say – ‘oh, wow, we already have the human capital that already knows about all this technology and has the aspiration’. This technology is coming and let us apply it not just in five unicorns but apply it in a public sector Navaratna. Let's apply it in a government, in a small business. That, to me, is what I think India should be doing and is doing.
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印度表现出强烈的技术使用我以前没有看到:萨提亚Nadella

微软首席称印度在数字公共产品惊人的工作,说公司专注于训练有素的投资,以保持竞争力。

Surabhi阿加瓦尔 Javed赛义德 Ganguli Bodhisatva
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印度的技术使用占其国内生产总值的增长是非常高的和国家的工作在创建数字公共物品如Aadhaar和统一的支付接口是惊人的,微软主席Sayta Nadella说。在接受采访时等Surabhi阿加瓦尔,Javed赛义德Ganguli Bodhisatva,Hyderabad-born 1980亿美元美国技术巨头的首席执行官说,“下一个大浪潮”将人工智能,他被AR-VR兴奋(人工和虚拟现实)和Metaverse。

则报道最多只能延缓微软方面的流行的开放进度AI平台ChatGPT还将与一些产品包括集成搜索引擎必应(Bing),他说。Nadella还谈到了未来科技公司的de-globalised世界,微软计划如何度过经济不确定性。编辑摘录:

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燃料未来的微软?

我专注于两件事:公司的核心目的感和使命——因为最终技术将来来去去。微软有一个身份的技术平台,以便其他人可以创造更多的科技平台。在1975年这是一个机会。我认为这是更大的机会在2023年,我只是想保持接地。我一直说,将是下一波大AI(人工智能)。我仍然非常兴奋与AR-VR发生了什么(人工现实-虚拟现实)和Metaverse,因为建立一个强烈的现场感是很重要的。

最终,我想转化为计算化学,我们迫切需要能源过渡。但基础,如果我看看所有这三个,他们建立在云上。如果我看今天发生的人工智能,这些大型的基本模型,我们谈论的是和很兴奋,只是可能,因为云计算和我们所做的非常分化在Azure能够工作模型和培训这些庞大的模型。今天的技术,有时用创新的方法,帮助出生(给)未来的技术。

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印度能发挥什么作用在人工智能、量子计算和Metaverse吗?

我的乐观主义对印度有多种方式。与印度发生了什么和数字公共产品只不过是惊人的。我的意思是,其他地方我看到这样严格的努力得到。我会见了Bhashini背后的人。他们向我展示了如何将语音转换成文本和语音。事实上,他们利用ChatGPT政府文件和向我展示了一些令人难以置信的能力。

小型企业使用的是技术的发展,Senco黄金在加尔各答,或者大型银行一样印度国家银行。的再见(依赖)Jios阿达尼将和其他人都是创造技术。让我们不要忘记初创公司。无论是InMobi或者LambdaTest Udaan,他们都是强烈的使用证明我没有见过的。的比例在印度国内生产总值(GDP)增长,技术的使用是非常高的。已经在GitHub,两个国家是印度。在LinkedIn,本质上是技术分析在印度是全球利率的两倍。所以,这显示了其他的方面。

你能给我们一种微软的累积投资在印度?

它是重要的。我有三种方法测量微软在印度投资。一个是我们是否正在(技术产品)在印度。从历史上看,我们建立了产品在其他地方,我们卖给他们,而现在我们在这里做的产品。我们有美国以外最大的研发中心。

我们已经把重要的资本投资建设四个大型数据中心和我们甚至与Jio,构建自己的数据中心。因此,我们在建设方面取得了显著的资本投资本质上现代工厂称为数据中心。这是我们制作的印度,这是导致其他人在印度。但这些公司正在印度不仅仅是在印度,他们让这个世界。我们使用LambdaTest或展示他们在其他地方。

则报道最多只能延缓微软方面的ChatGPT进度已成为广受欢迎的。我们如何看到你建筑产品的这些人工智能产品吗?是一个集成了Bing的可能性么?它让你直接与谷歌竞争吗?

我喜欢它在微软10多亿美元的企业时,Bing一样,是被认为是不存在的。所以,这是一个好位置的,因为你可以让世界大吃一惊。我们非常兴奋与开放的人工智能。这是最成功,最真实的一些真实世界的场景中使用大型模型。我们与开放的人工智能带来生命。所以,当Andrej Karpathy tweet,说80%的代码现在正在写的一个AI和副驾驶一样,它是惊人的。你很快就会()看到我们做更多跨所有域。今天,它是可以作为Azure开放api。我们将不断扩大,因为我们要确保这些大型模型对每个开发人员可用。

Bhashini可以使用GPT的事实,在我看来,这是和别的一样大。我想确保我们使用它来改变发生在与动力学联系客户服务中心;所发生的细微差别,我们今天有DAX指数作为人工智能的产品,完全改变了医生的作品;与微软Office 365和365年发生了什么。和微软今天设计师如何使用DALL-E来帮助人们创造设计。在电力应用你可以提示工作流自动化。所以,是的,我们期待看到什么是可能的在每一个领域,包括Bing。

科技公司如何在全球化的世界秩序的数量和程度似乎减少?

毫无疑问,世界正在经历一个新的阶段,找出配置全球化的作品。我认为我们公司需要导航显然是一个更复杂的地缘政治的世界。但最终,我想专注于——我们如何帮助?我们的许可证在任何国家从根本上存在因为我们创建本地盈余,对吧?我的意思是,乌克兰。与乌克兰,我们有一个非常简单的原则,当有人被袭击的网络领域,我们帮助防守。在乌克兰,我们在这里说,”我们如何帮助乌克兰政府继续函数当他们受到攻击?”

所以,对我来说,我们要满足现实世界。我们是一家美国公司,美国的外交政策,但是我们最终将被测试在印度(或者我们运营的国家)。我们如何能够创建本地盈余,而且如果我们这么做,我们将有一个许可,如果我们不操作,我们会踢出,当之无愧。这是我想到每个国家的方式。只要我们这样做,我认为像我们这样的跨国公司将保持接地。

计划购买TikTok死了吗?

我非常关注动视暴雪和完成交易。

你说的技术是一个通胀通缩力量的世界。你对2023年的预期是什么?你认为事情会变得更糟吗?

我不是一个宏观经济学家,但基本观点我有——这是我们所有人的showtime数字技术。能说,看,这是最宝贵的资源如何使用用较少的资源做更多的事。因此,从根本上…移动到云上。当你移动到云,你使用更少的能源,这是通货紧缩。你更有效地使用它,这是通缩。

事实上,如果你写一个原生云应用程序,可能是100 x,有时比你会做什么在您的数据中心。所以,这些都是通缩,可供人们在危机时刻锻炼。像其他公司一样,我们将会受到世界GDP增长的样子。我们不是免疫。我们将不得不调整。我的承诺,我们的运营成本要符合我们的收入增长。因此,我们将确保我们的投资在一个严格的对未来的方式,和我们呆的事实,我们需要竞争。

元与依赖和谷歌有显著的伙伴关系。你打算与更多的印度企业集团合作在一些大型数据中心等领域或其他领域?

我们与每一个人。Jio Azure Jio地区。因此,他们投资明显在我们云。我们与印度阿达尼合作。我们最近宣布,他们将使用Azure作为伴侣对他们所有的基础设施。他们也与我们在构建数据中心在海德拉巴。我们正在与再见。塔塔数码完全是建立在Azure,我们很兴奋他们超级应用和进展。因此,大型企业集团在印度都是人,我们要确保我们提出。

之间的区别我们和我们的许多跨国竞争对手,我们的商业模式需要别人使用我们的输出为自己创造更多的价值的输出。所以,这不是创建依赖我们,但它是关于创建独立与我们同在。这是我们的战略,我们将关注它。

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你喜欢寻找战略合作伙伴在印度?

我认为当你像微软这样的公司,我想确保我们的技术被使用。任何能帮助我们达到每个印度公民在每一个组织在任何一天是我们的首选合作伙伴。我总是想知道有多少人在我们周围的印度合作伙伴渠道技术。微软是独一无二的。

我们之前看过的向他人学习,但是我觉得没有人问这个问题:有多少人建立了企业在这个公司是成功的吗?有一个专属首选合作伙伴,我们买了一些分布,这不是印度的战略。战略评估是投资在印度帮助印度发展。

将发挥什么作用,印度在未来的技术,特别是在人工智能,Metaverse和量子计算?

第一件事是,有一个研究(通过)达特茅斯教授叫迭戈的临近。他做了一个神奇的纵向研究技术从1700年代的扩散,我认为,他已经更新到2020岁。他谈到最基本的一件事是,你应该把最新最好的技术,确保技术的扩散速度在你的国家是非常高的。所以,不要用它非常。强烈的用它来创造更多附加值的输出。

技术的使用在小型企业,现有公共部门,大型跨国公司和独角兽。这是什么是重要的。要做到这一点,你需要人力资本,但印度已经有了一个优势。你把我的两个数据点或两三个数据点的Github LinkedIn和添加,说,“哦,我们已经有了人力资本已经知道所有这些技术和有抱负的。这种技术不仅来了,让我们把它应用在五独角兽但公共部门Navaratna应用它。让我们把它应用在政府,在一个小生意。对我来说,我认为印度应该做的和正在做的。
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India<\/a>’s technology usage as a percentage of its GDP growth is very high and the country’s work in creating digital public goods such as Aadhaar and the Unified Payments Interface is astonishing, Microsoft<\/a> chairman Sayta Nadella said. In an interview to ET's Surabhi Agarwal<\/strong>, Javed Sayed<\/strong> and Bodhisatva Ganguli<\/strong>, the Hyderabad-born chief executive of the $198 billion US-based technology behemoth said “the next big wave” will be Artificial Intelligence and that he was excited by AR-VR (Artificial and Virtual Reality) and the Metaverse.

Microsoft-backed popular Open AI platform ChatGPT will also be integrated with several of its products including search engine Bing, he said. Nadella also spoke about the future of technology companies in a de-globalised world and how Microsoft was planning to ride through the economic uncertainty. Edited Excerpts:

What will fuel the Microsoft of the future?
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I focus on two things: core sense of purpose and mission of the company - because ultimately technologies will come and go. Microsoft had an identity of being a tech platform so that others can create more tech platforms. That was an opportunity in 1975. I think it's more of an opportunity in 2023, so I just want to stay grounded on that. I have always said that the next big wave is going to be AI (Artificial Intelligence). I'm still very excited about what's happening with AR-VR (artificial reality - virtual reality) and Metaverse, because the creation of a sense of presence is important.

Ultimately, I want to translate into something like computational chemistry, which we need desperately for our energy transition. But the foundation, if I look at all those three, they build on the cloud. If I look at what's happening in AI today, these large foundational models that we are talking about and are very excited about, were only possible because of the cloud and what we did in terms of very differentiated work in Azure to be able to model and train these large models. Today's technology, sometimes used well and in innovative ways, helps (give) birth (to) the technology of the future.

What role can India play in AI, quantum computing and the Metaverse?
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My sense of optimism for India comes in multiple ways. What's happening with India and digital public goods is nothing other than astonishing. I mean, nowhere else do I see such rigorous effort being put. I met with the people behind Bhashini. They showed me how they are converting speech to text and text to speech. In fact, they have used ChatGPT on the government documents and showed me some unbelievable capability.

Small businesses are using technology to grow, like
Senco Gold<\/a> in Kolkata, or large banks like the State Bank of India<\/a>. The Tatas<\/a>, the (Reliance<\/a>) Jios and Adanis and everyone else are all creating technology. And let's not forget the startups. Whether it is InMobi or LambdaTest or Udaan, they are all demonstrating intense usage that I have not seen before. As a percentage of GDP growth in India, technology usage is very high. Already on GitHub, the number two country is India. On LinkedIn, the rate of essentially skill profiling in India is twice the global rate. So, that shows the other aspirational side.

Can you give us a sense of Microsoft’s cumulative investment in India?
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It is significant. There are three ways I measure Microsoft investment in India. One is whether we are making (technology products) in India. Historically, we built products elsewhere, and we sold them here, whereas now we make products here. We have the largest development centre outside of the United States.

We have put significant capital investments in building out four large data centres and we have even partnered with
Jio<\/a>, building out their own data centre. So, we are making significant capital investment in building out essentially the modern-day factories called data centres. So that's us making (in) India, which is leading to all the others making in India. But those companies that are making in India are not just making in India, they're making for the world. We work with LambdaTest or InMobi to take them everywhere else.

Microsoft-backed ChatGPT has become hugely popular. How do we see you building products on top of these AI offerings? Is an integration with Bing in the offing? Does it put you in direct competition with Google?
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I like it when $10 billion-plus businesses in Microsoft, like Bing, are sort of considered somehow non-existent. So, it's a good position to be in, because you can surprise the world. We're very excited about our partnership with Open AI. It's the most successful, most real use of large models in some real-world scenarios. We partnered with Open AI to bring that to life. So, when Andrej Karpathy tweets, saying that 80% of his code is now being written by an AI like co-pilot, it's phenomenal. You will (soon) see us do more with it across all domains. Today, it's available as Azure open APIs. We'll keep expanding that because we want to make sure that these are large models that are available for every developer.

The fact that Bhashini can use GPT, that to me is as big as anything else. I want to make sure that we use it to change what happens in customer service with Dynamics in contact centres; what happens with Nuance where we have DAX today as an AI product that just completely changes the physician's works; what's happening with Office 365 and Microsoft 365. And how Microsoft Designer today uses DALL-E to help people create designs. In Power Apps you can prompt workflow automation. So, yes, we look forward to sort of seeing what's possible in every domain, including Bing.

How do technology companies function in a world order where the amount and degree of globalization seems to be decreasing?
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There is no question that the world is going through a new phase of figuring out what configuration of globalization works for them. I think that we as companies have to navigate what is clearly a more complicated geopolitical world. But ultimately, I want to stay focused on - how are we helping? Our license to operate in any country fundamentally exists because we create local surplus, right? I mean, take Ukraine. With Ukraine, we have a very simple principle that when anybody is being attacked on the cyber domain, we help to defend. And in the case of Ukraine, we were right there and said, “how do we help the government of Ukraine continue to function when they are under attack?”

So, to me, we want to meet the real world. We are an American company, subject to American foreign policy, but we ultimately will be tested in India (or the country we are operating in). How we are able to create local surplus, and if we do, we will have a permission to operate and if we don't, we will get kicked out and deservedly so. So that's the way I think about every country. As long as we do that, I think multinationals like us will stay grounded.

Is the plan to buy TikTok dead?
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I am very focused on Activision Blizzard and completing that transaction.

You said technology is a deflationary force in an inflationary world. What is your outlook for 2023? Do you think things will get worse?
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I'm not a macro economist, but the fundamental point I was making there was - it's sort of showtime for all of us in digital technology. To be able to say - look, here is how you can use the most valuable resource to do more with less. Therefore, fundamentally… move to the cloud. When you move to the cloud, you use less energy, that's deflation. You use it more efficiently, that's deflationary.

In fact, if you write a cloud-native app that might be 100x, sometimes better than what you may have done in your data centre. So, those are all deflationary forces that are available for people to exercise in a time of crisis. We are, like every other company, going to be subject to what the world GDP growth looks like. We're not immune to it. And we will have to adjust. I made the commitment that our operating costs are going to be in line with our revenue growth. Therefore, we will make sure we are investing in a disciplined way for the future, and we stay grounded in the fact that we need to be competitive.

Meta and Google have significant partnerships with Reliance. Do you plan to partner with more Indian conglomerates across some large areas like data centres or other segments?
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We are partnered with everybody. Jio has an Azure Jio region. So, they're investing significantly in our cloud. We've partnered with Adani. We just recently announced that they're going to be using Azure as their partner for all their infrastructure. They're also partnered with us in building out our data centre in Hyderabad. We are partnered with Tatas.
Tata Digital<\/a> is built completely on Azure, and we're really excited about their Super App and the progress they're making. So, the large conglomerates in India are all people that we want to make sure we co-innovate with.

The difference between us and many of our multinational competitors is that our business model requires others to use our output to create more valuable output for themselves. So, it's not creating dependence on us, but it's about creating independence with us. That's our strategy and we'll stay focused on it.

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Will you prefer to look for a strategic partner in India?
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I think when you are a company like Microsoft, I want to make sure that our technology gets used across the board. Anything that is going to help us reach every Indian citizen across every Indian organization on any given day is our preferred partner. I always wonder how many people are employed in the India partner channel around our technologies. Microsoft is unique.

We learn from others who came before us, but I feel no one asks the question: how many people have built businesses around this company that are successful? Having one exclusive preferred partner that we bought off for some distribution, that is not strategic for India. What is strategic is to evaluate who is investing in India to help India grow.

What role will India play in the technology of the future, especially in AI, Metaverse and quantum computing?
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The first thing is that there's a study (by) this Dartmouth professor called Diego Comin. He did a fantastic longitudinal study of diffusion of technology from the 1700s to, I think, he has updated it to 2020. The fundamental thing that he talks about is that you should take the latest and greatest technology and make sure that the diffusion rate of that technology inside of your country is very high. So, get it in and don't use it trivially. Use it intensely to create more value-added output.

Technology’s use in small businesses, public sector, large existing MNCs and unicorns. That's what is important. To do that, you need human capital, but that's where India already has an advantage. You take my two data points or two of the three data points of Github and LinkedIn and you add that up and say – ‘oh, wow, we already have the human capital that already knows about all this technology and has the aspiration’. This technology is coming and let us apply it not just in five unicorns but apply it in a public sector Navaratna. Let's apply it in a government, in a small business. That, to me, is what I think India should be doing and is doing.
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