India, Feb. 19 -- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, gave his remarks at the opening ceremony of the AI Impact Summit, New Delhi.

Thank you, Prime Minister Modi, and distinguished leaders. It is wonderful to be back in India. Every time I visit, I am struck by the pace of change, and today is no different.

Back when I was a student, I often took the Coromandel Express train from Chennai up to IIT Kharagpur. To get there we passed 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 $15 billion infrastructure investment in India. When finished, this hub will house gigawatt-scale compute and a ne...