When Binny Bansal, co-founder of India’s largest retailer Flipkart was studying at IIT-Delhi, nobody at his institute was interested in the subject of artificial intelligence. On Monday, Mr. Nadella, who leads the world’s largest software maker, announced a strategic partnership with Flipkart, where the e-commerce company would adopt the company's cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure. Flipkart said that it planned to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and analytics capabilities in Azure to optimise its data for innovative merchandising, advertising, marketing and customer service. “(We) don't have anything that says ‘we have the ability to write like Rabindranath Tagore’,” said Mr. Nadella. Through his social enterprise EkStep, he said that he aimed to fix the learning challenges of India’s 200 million children using AI and smartphones.

Source: The Hindu February 21, 2017 00:31 UTC