Nandan Nilekani

Last week, Starmer was visiting India and met with Aadhaar's architect, Nandan Nilekani - who is also the non-executive chairman of the IT services giant Infosys Ltd

Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani says India will be the hub for applying AI and frugal engineering, citing Aadhaar, UPI and small language models as key to mass-scale adoption

The core of the India Energy Stack is to make energy pay for itself by a constant exchange of data between governments, the private sector, and consumers, but chronic problems of bad pricing remain

Nandan Nilekani backs AI4Bharat's mission to build open-source AI infrastructure for Indian languages, advancing digital inclusion through language accessibility

Speaking at the Carnegie Global Technology Summit 2025, Nilekani said that owing to the quick mass adoption of AI in India, developments in the technology will also be much faster

He also stressed the need to change habits and workflows in enterprises and government to effectively integrate AI

Nilekani believes the combination of AI, smartphones will help unlock digital access, but challenges like income disparity remain; Nilekani's 'The Great Unlock' aims to overcome these barriers

Outlining key factors for India's economic expansion, Nilekani spoke about the necessary "Big Unlocks" required to accelerate the country's growth rate from 6 per cent to 8 per cent

He also added that all the building blocks of digitisation in India have been created in a way that promotes financial inclusion

Founded in November 2020 by Prashant Sachan, AppsForBharat operates the devotion platform Sri Mandir

According to Nilekani, Finternet will be user-centric, unified, which means it will cover all types of assets, with a universal infrastructure

In a letter to the UPSC, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi firmly believes that the lateral entry process should uphold the principles of equity and social justice

Infosys has integrated GenAI components into all its service lines and developed 25 playbooks to create impact for its clients, Nilekani said

This is just the beginning. As generative AI morphs into artificial general intelligence - machines rivaling human cognitive abilities - even highly complex tasks may not require expert programmers

The real power of AI, Nilekani said, will come from configuring all the different models and tools to get the best solutions

Taking a swipe at AI alarmists and monopolistic tendencies, the co-founder and chairman of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani dismissed doomsday predictions as 'protectionist rhetoric'

The people+ai initiative focuses on discovering, demonstrating, and disseminating population-scale AI use cases for India

It stands out as one of the select technology-driven consortia dedicated to addressing and facilitating large-scale computing access

Tokenisation, or the process of converting traditional securities into their digital copies, might bring a $22 trn market in alternative assets within reach of a liquidity-constrained middle class

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday said it has collaborated with Nandan Nilekani's EkStep Foundation to set up a Joint Innovation Centre (JIC) to foster digital solutions for public service delivery. This joint effort will focus on enabling and accelerating the creation of digital public goods (DPGs) and digital public infrastructures (DPIs), the company said in a statement. "The JIC will promote collaboration among...stakeholders to develop DPGs and DPIs for sectors such as education, agriculture, finance, healthcare, and climate change, and help accelerate societal transformation," the statement said. The innovation centre will focus on supporting startups, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators (SIs) to leverage the power of technologies such as cloud computing, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics from AWS; help them imagine and invent new use cases for DPGs and DPIs, incubate them, and enhance existing ones, and offer comprehensive starter kit