Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has praised India’s role in global innovation, emphasising the country’s contributions in vaccines, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital infrastructure. In an interview with Times Now, Gates highlighted the innovation taking place in India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) and its global influence.

“Well even in my Microsoft days I got to see the depth of talent here. Now Microsoft has so many great people from India including Satya Nadella who’s doing a fantastic job and so you know when I started the foundation, I knew that in terms of improving children’s lives India would be a place we’d want to be active in partnership with the government and that innovative spirit, and it spread way beyond. Everybody knows DPI which is amazing, and it is being taken to many countries everybody knows the vaccines, but now it’s going way beyond that in agriculture, artificial intelligence, diagnostics. Particularly since the pandemic, I would say there has been an acceleration,” he said.