Meta’s chief AI officer Alexander Wang on Wednesday described India as a “very optimistic case stuff”, highlighting the nation’s rising function as a worldwide powerhouse in synthetic intelligence.
An MIT dropout, Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016 and led the corporate for almost a decade earlier than he was appointed to a senior place at tech large Meta final yr.
The 29-year-old government attributed India’s development to the huge expertise pool and a quickly increasing startup ecosystem, information company ANI reported, as the continued AI Summit within the nationwide capital is bringing world leaders collectively.
Wang was talking on the ‘Governing within the Age of AI: Sovereignty, Influence and Technique’ occasion in New Delhi, the place he shared insights from his interactions with native entrepreneurs, stating that India is at present outperforming conventional tech hubs in particular AI sectors.
“I believe India is a really optimistic case research, largely because of the expertise pool. I used to be at a dinner with a variety of Indian founders and enterprise capitalists final night time, and the statistic was that there are extra shopper AI startups in India than in the USA,” Wang stated throughout the occasion.
Progress in India’s tech panorama
The Meta government additional highlighted the speedy improvement of the Indian tech ecosystem, pointing to the excessive focus of innovation inside the nation’s borders. “There actually are a few of these shining examples of unimaginable improvement of those ecosystems,” he added.
These remarks have been made throughout a hearth chat with former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, held on the sidelines of the continued India AI Influence Summit 2026, in keeping with YEARS.
All in regards to the AI summit
The summit, which is scheduled to proceed till 20 February, has introduced collectively authorities policymakers, trade AI consultants, academicians, and civil society representatives from internationally to advance world discussions on the know-how.
Some notable attendees embody Google CEO Sundar PichaiOpenAI’s Sam Altman, Reliance Industries Chairman and MD Mukesh D Ambani, Invoice Gates, amongst a number of different firm leaders.
The occasion is being held throughout 10 arenas protecting greater than 70,000 sq mt with 13 nation pavilions highlighting worldwide collaboration within the AI ecosystem. Contributors embody delegates from Australia, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the Netherlands, the UK, and African nations.
Greater than 700 classes have been deliberate throughout the summit’s period, which can cowl themes reminiscent of AI security, governance, ethics, knowledge safety, sovereign AI capabilities and the way forward for work.
The five-day summit, inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi, is being promoted as the primary main worldwide AI assembly hosted within the World South. Because the hype across the occasion builds, members have complained about lengthy queues, overcrowding and confusion on the venue.