Google CEO Pichai Says India Could Build World-Class AI Firms As AI Transforms Every Sector | AI1G

of superpowers that this technology gives to an SME. Imagine an SME, it could be a trader, it could be a retailer, it could be a small manufacturer doing kind of handcrafts and so forth. But think about the ability to be able to harness technology without having to be a technologist. Think about the small proprietor who can actually describe the technological systems that they want their small business to use and almost vibe code or describe what they want and these systems build that. So I think the possibility for these kind of superpower capabilities being available to small businesses, I think it's gonna be extraordinarily exciting. And I think the potential for that, particularly for countries like India and countries in the global South where the SME part of the economy is actually the biggest part of the economy and touches more people, more lives. Now, one of the things that, you know, we're hoping we can contribute to this and we're partnering right now with the Project Vani, for example, with the Indian Institute of Science, which is how do you make these technologies more available and usable in all the languages? So we're now focusing a lot, for example, on the Indic languages and how do you do that? How do you make it possible to be able to just do speech translation directly without having to go to a keyboard? And we're already working on that. So I think these are some of the possibilities for SMEs and I'm very, very excited about that. Fantastic. We have very little time left, so I'm gonna come to you. You know, India has leapfrogged past tech shifts. We went straight to mobile, digital payments, et cetera. Everyone keeps talking about the AI leapfrog opportunity. What does that mean to you? If you were to describe that, what would that look like? Okay, it's a great question. That's what this opportunity represents. Look, I mean, it's a bit difficult to describe it, but I literally expect every sector in every context, every workflow to be transformed by it. So to me, we are partnering with AIMS in India as example as to how can we work for patients to kind of input their symptoms or give the information. The AI creates a report to help assist doctors. We are in early stages of projects like this. But to me, leapfrog means in each of these sectors, you radically transform how the workflow happens. I think how do students learn? How do your hospital systems work? How is government more efficient in a deep foundational way? I do think in areas like science, I think one of the things Demis and his teams have been focused on is how do you accelerate scientific discovery at a fundamental level? I think we are talking about a technology here, which will allow you to create new things at some incredibly fast trajectory. So I think it's a bit tough to fully envision today, other than we know it's gonna happen in a pretty profound way. So, but on a practical basis, I expect on a day-to-day basis people's lives to be significantly enhanced with it across everything they touch. Very last question to you, Sundar. We are known for our talent, young talent, and then our young talent and we're very proud of people like you who go out and do such fantastic work. But what has to change in India so that the next Sundar or Sundar 2.0 stays here and builds the world's most magical AI company in India? Oh, I think, I mean, it's already changed. You know, when I look at, I mean, India's been producing extraordinary companies, right? You know, when you look at companies like Flipkart, Oyo, et cetera, I mean, these are all companies homegrown here and they're doing really, really well. The developer energy I find in India, every time I travel, you were in Bangalore recently and, you know, it's bar none, you know, second to none. The entrepreneurship ecosystem here is thriving. You know, even recently the work Sarbam has done developing locally AI models. So I think what you're talking about is actually happening and, you know, I just don't see any impediments to that and I think India's very, very well positioned. On that note, thank you very much to all three of you and if I could please request Preeti and Sanjay Gupta, President Google APAC, to please join us.