India, Feb. 19 -- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, drew a virtual timeline between his time as a student travelling the Coromandel Express, to investing $15 billion on infrastructure in India including an AI hub in Visakhapatnam, and framed India not as just a market for AI but as a co-architect of its infrastructure, science and workforce future. In his keynote at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Pichai noted Google's latest initiatives including a new international subsea cable as part of the America-India Connect Subsea Cable, as well as Google DeepMind partnership to advance AI-powered science and education in the country.

"The progress shows what's possible when humanity dreams big, and no technology has me dreaming bigger than AI. It ...