Preeti Lobana, Vice President and Country Manager at Google India, said India’s artificial intelligence journey must be driven by inclusivity, innovation, and local empowerment, not imitation. She was speaking at the CNBC-TV18 Global Leadership Summit 2025 in Mumbai on Friday.

"The real opportunity for India and the Global South," she said, "is not just to catch up but to leapfrog ahead because we’ve been given this unique technology to solve some of our biggest systemic issues at scale."

Lobana emphasised that AI can and should enable inclusive growth by bridging access gaps in education, healthcare, and agriculture. But to achieve that, she said, India needs to build its own models of development rooted in local languages, culture, and realities.

"AI for India needs to be inclusive ra

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