The Google CEO stressed that the product shows what’s possible when humanity dreams big, and no technology has him dreaming bigger than AI. He called it the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes.
AI-India Impact Summit: Sundar Pichai says, ‘Vizag emerging as global AI hub with Google's $15B investment.' (File Photo: IANS)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai today addressed the AI-India Impact Summit in the national capital on Day 4, emphasising that Artificial Intelligence represents a transformative shift in technology with the potential to accelerate progress across sectors and help emerging economies advance faster.
During his address, Pichai highlighted India’s growing role in the global AI ecosystem. On the emergence of Visakhapatnam as a global AI hub, Pichai expressed his delight to see Visakhapatnam, where Google has made a major investment, transform into a major centre for artificial intelligence as part of Google’s long-term investment in India.
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He said, “Through Visakhapatnam, Vizag. I remember it being a quiet and modest coastal city brimming with potential. Now in that same city, Google is establishing a full-stack AI hub, part of our USD 15 billion infrastructure investment in India. When finished, this hub will house gigawatt-scale compute and a new international subsea cable gateway, bringing jobs and cutting-edge AI to people and businesses across India. Sitting on the train, I never imagined Vizag becoming a global AI hub.”
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#WATCH | Delhi: At the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai says, “Prime Minister Modi and distinguished leaders, it’s wonderful to be back in India. Every time I visit, I’m struck by the pace of change, and today is no different. Back when I was a… pic.twitter.com/fmTsfzU78q
— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2026
The Google CEO stressed that the product shows what’s possible when humanity dreams big, and no technology has him dreaming bigger than AI. He called it the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes. He said, “We are on the cusp of hyper-progress and discoveries that can help emerging economies leapfrog legacy gaps. But that outcome is neither guaranteed nor automatic.”
Expressing his optimism around AI, Pichai said that AI can improve billions of lives and solve some of the hardest problems in science. He said, “For 50 years, predicting protein structures was a grand challenge and a blind spot that stalled drug discovery. Demis Hassabis and his team at Google DeepMind asked an audacious question: how could we use AI to solve this? That question led to AlphaFold.”
After the keynote address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with global tech leaders including Sundar Pichai, CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei posed for a group photograph at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in Delhi.
#WATCH | Delhi | Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with global tech leaders including the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei pose for a group photograph at the India AI… pic.twitter.com/GccXlG9rRx
— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2026
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