Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI is giving him a reason to dream bigger about what technology can achieve. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi earlier this year, Pichai described AI as the biggest technology shift of his lifetime and said it could help countries solve major problems in areas such as healthcare, education, farming and scientific research. “And no technology has me dreaming bigger than AI,” Pichai said, calling AI “the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes” and saying the world is approaching a period of rapid progress and new discoveries. Pichai recalled travelling by the Coromandel Express from Chennai to IIT Kharagpur, passing through Visakhapatnam, or Vizag, which he remembered as a quiet coastal city with potential. Today, Google is building a full-stack AI hub in Vizag as part of its planned $15 billion infrastructure investment in India, expected to include large-scale computing capacity and a new international subsea cable gateway. He also spoke about his 83-year-old father experiencing a fully autonomous Waymo car ride in San Francisco. Pichai warned that the benefits of AI will not automatically reach everyone, saying “We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide,” and that investment in computing infrastructure, internet connectivity and digital skills will be important. He said Google has trained 100 million people in digital skills and is launching a Google AI Professional Certificate, adding that governments, technology companies and businesses need to work together.