ET Interview | AI will not only solve challenges for India but also for the world: Satya Nadella

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Satya Nadella told ET during his annual visit to the country last week. In an interview, the 56-year-old chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation called AI the new factor of productivity and said it will aid India's goal of being a $5-trillion economy. Edited excerpts:

Congratulations on completing ten years at Microsoft. You're being talked about as the 'GOAT' of tech CEOs, the greatest of all time. Your success is partly due to the fact that you placed the right things at the heart of Microsoft 10 years ago, in terms of mobile, cloud, and so on. So, what is going to be Microsoft's paradigm ten years from now?

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The way that I characterise my time at Microsoft is to look at it as this 32-year run. There have been four massive platform shifts, whether it's the PC client server, web internet, mobile cloud, and now AI (artificial intelligence). I go back in time then, and pattern match on what it means to be here too. What happened in the year minus two or minus three is the most important thing. You have to make these leaps on what comes next long before it's conventional wisdom.

For example, our Open AI partnership, our ability to go long on them, and build the compute infrastructure… It is obvious now, but it was not obvious even three-four years