AI: Microsoft, Amazon bet big, but where does India stand in the global race?

Experts have called India a hedge against AI - reflecting the absence of Indian companies in the global boom.

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Microsoft's Satya Nadella announced his company's largest investment ever in Asia - $17.5bn (£13.14bn) - "to help build the infrastructure, skills, and sovereign capabilities needed for India's AI-first future".

Amazon followed suit, and said it was putting in more than $35bn in the country by 2030, with an unspecified chunk of that investment going into boosting AI capabilities.

The announcements come at a particularly interesting juncture.

As fears of an AI bubble swept global markets and tech stock valuations soared, several leading brokerages took a contrarian view on India's AI landscape.