New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Satya Nadella is in India, promoting the company's artificial intelligence (AI) tools - Copilot, agentic AI, and datasets - and urging the government and domestic businesses to adopt them.

Microsoft's big push follows rival Google's recent $15-billion investment to set up a one-gigawatt (GW) data centre in India, signalling a rising competition among global tech giants to dominate the country's fast-growing digital market.

Nadella spoke in India for a second time this year on Wednesday in front of senior government officials and top executives of big domestic enterprises. On the sidelines, he also met billionaire Gautam Adani, showcasing Microsoft's AI capabiliti...