Chennai-based international know-how providers supplier, Zoho Company’s co-founder and Chief Scientist, Sridhar Vembu, attending the AI Affect Summit 2026 in New Delhi on Wednesday, 18 February 2026, mentioned that India might outpace adoption of synthetic intelligence (AI) than the US over the following 10 years, reported the information company PTI.
Citing historic examples of India and the ability of the youth within the nation, Vembu mentioned he was extra optimistic inhabitants embracing the brand new wave of AI know-how.
“…in 10 years…India is likely to be quicker by way of AI adoption than even America,” mentioned Sridhar Vembu, talking on the AI Affect Summit 2026.
Giving an instance of the Unified Funds Interface (UPI) on the way it turned mass-scale in India, Sridhar Vembu mentioned that AI even have the potential to be the identical, in line with the company report.
Historical past to repeat itself?
Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu additionally highlighted how fibre optics was the know-how of America again within the early 2000s, after which American enterprise capitalists offered “10s of billions ({dollars}) into telecom corporations, significantly fibre optics,” and it’s “in all places in India” now, however not a lot in the US anymore.
Vembu’s instance confirmed how India jumped into the chance, adapting from the teachings that America learnt with the fibre optics know-how and instantly went into fibre and cell, which marked an enormous step in direction of the nation’s digital transfer.
In response to the company report, Vembu additional mentioned that the rationale India is more likely to outpace America in AI adoption is trigger “now we have a really youthful, optimistic inhabitants. We do not have a inhabitants that could be very skeptical…which is a blessing.”
He mentioned that, not like the “unwilling crowd”, India is open to accepting and embracing synthetic intelligence at a a lot greater stage. For a rustic to be forward within the AI entrance, Vembu urged the younger entrepreneurs and start-ups to “optimistically experiment” and continue learning from the challenges, reported the information company.
Vembu pushes again in opposition to fears of mass job losses
Mint reported earlier that Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu, in a social media publish on 16 February 2026, pushed again in opposition to fears of mass job losses, saying that white-collar roles won’t vanish anytime quickly due to the bogus intelligence (AI) push.
“The quoted publish makes a robust argument that white collar jobs will not go away anytime quickly as a result of AI,” mentioned Sridhar Vembu in his publish on X. The Zoho co-founder advisable that individuals observe sure steps in these altering occasions to current their robust stance in occasions of AI innovation.
Vembu advisable folks to maintain an open thoughts and soak up each sort of info, whereas forming some opinions, however maintain them “loosely” topic to revisions.
“Be able to make U-turns rapidly throughout this part,” mentioned Sridhar Vembu in his publish. He additionally mentioned that over time, your opinions ought to solidify into convictions, however by no means power them. You can’t “purchase” a conviction; it has to come back from inside.
“Do not let your ego combine up together with your conviction. That’s when it turns into dogma,” he mentioned. Vembu additionally advisable that when you have got robust convictions, act on them. Conviction with out motion is ineffective. Motion with out conviction is pointless.