India-Based Founders Building AI for Global Customers, Microsoft Executive Says
NEW DELHI — India-based founders are increasingly building artificial intelligence products for global customers while working closely with partners and investors around the world, Microsoft executive Jay Parikh said Tuesday.
Parikh, executive vice president of CoreAI at Microsoft, said India’s combination of fast-moving developers, large-scale enterprise AI adoption and digital public infrastructure gives the country a strong position in deploying AI at population scale.
In a blog post, Parikh pointed to GitHub’s community of more than 27 million developers in India, including more than 2 million who joined the platform in 2026. He said Indian developers are now the second-largest contributors to open source globally, with more than 7.5 million contributions to AI-specific projects.
“India didn’t lead the first wave of technological innovation — but it built one of the world’s most important developer ecosystems and turned that foundation into a global engine of scale through the IT services industry,” Parikh said.
Parikh said Rahul Regulapati, founder and CEO of Galleri5, reflects a new generation of builders in the agentic AI era. He noted that Regulapati’s studio released India’s first AI-generated television series.
Indian companies are also moving AI from experimentation to production more quickly than many others worldwide, Parikh said. As of November 2025, 47% of Indian enterprises had multiple generative AI use cases live in production, while another 23% were in the pilot stage.
Parikh said India’s digital public infrastructure could help make the country the world’s first large-scale AI public infrastructure, with intelligent systems embedded across sectors such as financial services, health care and education.
“The next phase of AI won’t be defined by who builds the best models, but by who can deploy them at scale with trust, speed, and real-world impact. India is uniquely positioned for that shift, and increasingly, it’s where that future is taking shape,” Parikh said.
A 2026 Deloitte enterprise AI survey ranked India first among 15 countries for at-scale AI adoption. The survey found that 40% of Indian respondents reported significant or full AI use, compared with a global average of 28%. (Source: IANS)
