Jammu, Feb. 9 -- India is expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella said during his address to 1,100 developers and technology leaders at the Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru on Thursday. India is the fastest-growing market on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software development platform, with 13.2 million developers using it.

After the US, India has the highest number of generative AI (artificial intelligence) projects (GenAI) on GitHub, Nadella said as he highlighted the pivotal role of India's developer community in building cutting-edge products and solutions. "This next generation of AI is changing how and what developers build everywhere, i...