There’s great momentum in India in terms of AI and agentic AI applications getting deployed, observed Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft.
Mr. Nadella, the top brass of the Redmond-based tech major, wasdelivering a keynote in Bengaluru on Thursday as part of his AI Tour in India, which began in New Delhi two days ago with an announcement ofa mega investment for India.
Addressing a packed audience of developers, AI experts and technocrats,he said India would become the number one community in the world with GitHub by 2030.
He said it was fantastic to see the engagement and the type of projects that were coming out ofBengaluru and India. “We’re building out GitHub as essentially Agent HQ (an agentic platform that unites every agent),” Mr Nadella said.
Elaborating on the impact of agentic AI, he said a mindset shift was critical, even for developers. “We need even a new way to think about the frontier of the classic SDLC (software development life cycle), which has to change a new, AI- driven SDLC.’’
Mr. Nadella further said, the real goal was to empower builders: software and technology developers, engineers, and organisations, to innovate at scale, assign intelligent tasks to AI agents, generate actionable insights, and ultimately get better real-world outcomes.
“I want to talk about how as builders we are moving the frontier. At the end of the day, when you think about it, for us, it always starts with empowering every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more,’’ he said adding that’s why Microsoft has been building.
That meant, the company was moving the frontier of outcomes for individuals or those organisations, he explained. “We’re not building for building sake, we’re building to have impact.’’
According to him, ultimately, it’s about the customer experience that’s changed, the employee experience that’s changed, the operational efficiency that the company is able to bring to any institution.
Commenting on Microsoft’s focus on India, he told the audience that, “We’re really excited about investing in India to make sure that we’re able to bring the best infrastructure here. This is the largest investment ($17.5 billion announced byhim on Tuesday, that we have made in Asia.’’
On cyber resilience and sovereignty, Mr.Nadella said, one important consideration that needed to be thought of in sovereignty was cyber resilience.
“At the end of the day, cyber security is an intelligence game. You can be sovereign and not have global intelligence. That sort of essentially means you can be vulnerable,’’ he said cautioning, “We see a lot of threat actions across the globe. We take all those trillions of daily signals, turn that into everyday defence, whether it’s on Azure or on Windows.’’
Explaining instances of Co-pilot experiences, he indicated that across applications like Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams, intelligent agents were embedded into the tools employees use today. Whether it’s running deep research with the help of Co-pilot, analysing complex spreadsheets using agent mode in Excel, or orchestrating multiple agents to tackle a business workflow, the technology was designed to accelerate decision-making and drive measurable impact, he said.
Mr. Nadella also spoke about the concept of agent factories, which allow organisations create, deploy, and manage AI agents tailored for specific tasks, under Microsoft’s IQ factory framework which comprises work IQ, fabric IQ, and foundry IQ.
Published – December 11, 2025 07:58 pm IST
