Amazon CEO Andy Jassy meets Indian startup founders to map out the next wave of AI

Visiting India, Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy met with several startup founders in New Delhi on Thursday and held talks with entrepreneurs who create solutions in the fields of voice technology, robotics, education technology, health technology and digital public infrastructure.

“The discussion focused on the opportunity to shape the next wave of AI adoption, fueled by India’s linguistic diversity, population-scale digital infrastructure, deep engineering talent and rapidly growing startup community,” the company said in a statement. “Indian founders have mastered constraints that could potentially define the next wave in global AI adoption,” he added.

During the meeting, the company highlighted India’s key strengths while underlining the critical role of Amazon Web Services (AWS). “AWS is designed to be the infrastructure layer underneath these efforts, offering the broadest range of base models through Amazon Bedrock and purpose-built chips like Trainium,” the statement said.

Participating startup founders include Mahanaaryman Scindia (co-founder and CGO, Ethara.AI), Alakh Pandey (co-founder and CEO, PhysicsWallah), Abhijit Kane (co-founder, Postman), Keshav Reddy (founder and CEO, EqualAI), Suvonil Chatterjee (co-founder and CEO, Manav Robotics), Suresh Khadakbhavi (CEO of DigiYatra Foundation), Sudharshan Kamath (co-founder and CEO, little.ai) and Vikalp Sahni (founder and CEO, Eka Care). Amazon’s Sandeep Dutta was also there.

This meeting coincides with Amazon’s commitment to a massive long-term investment of $48 billion in India by 2030, marking one of the largest technology investments in the country. The commitment brings the company’s total financial commitment to India since 2010 to $88 billion.

Jassy also used his visit to announce plans to expand its Amazon Now fast delivery service to more than 300 Indian cities; This comes at a time when competition in the country’s fast-track business sector has intensified. “Amazon is on track to build India’s largest ‘delivery in minutes’ network, where orders have doubled every quarter since its launch,” the company said.