Former Xiaomi India head Manu Kumar Jain gets his ‘aha’ moment at Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s India event – Times of India

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off his India visit at an event in Mumbai where several business leaders were invited. Among them was Xiaomi’s former India head Manu Kumar Jain, who joined G42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm. His role is to lead the expansion of the company, which developed ‘Jais’ Arabic large language model (LLM) that was ‘introduced’ by Nadella during his key address.Jain thanked Nadella for this and appreciated Microsoft’s efforts on AI and its transformative role.
“Great privilege attending an enlightening talk from Satya Nadella on #AI and its transformative role in our world,” he said in a post on X.
“I had my big ‘aha’ moment when Satya introduced ‘AI models as a service,’ including #JAIS (AI model built by #G42) alongside giants like OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Llama (Meta). It’s a proud and humbling reminder of the incredible journey we’re on,” he added.

Jain said that AI “is not just the future; it’s the present, changing how we live, work, and think. Here’s to building a smarter, more connected world together.”
Nadella on India’s AI journey
During his address, Nadella said that India is uniquely positioned to make the promise of AI a reality. He noted that Microsoft Copilot is helping companies complete work faster, highlighting Infosys, HCL Tech, LTIMindtree and others are already using Microsoft’s AI tools.
He is set to speak with the country’s developers and technology leaders while in India this week. The Microsoft CEO noted that while efforts are on to increase power generation from renewable sources, India also has to focus on grid stability.
Nadella also met Tata Group’s chairman N Chandrasekaran, and added that the conglomerate’s airline arm Air India has embarked on AI adoption.
The Microsoft CEO noted that in a country like India, where there is a lot of “investment going into core basic science”, it holds the promise to leapfrog on the science revolution.