Microsoft’s Nadella to Arrive in India as AI Battle Heats Up

Microsoft Corp.’s chief Satya Nadella this week becomes the latest tech leader to visit India, joining a procession of industry bigwigs seeking to court a potentially massive market and use the world’s most populous country as a proving ground for AI.

Tech giants are eying the country’s nearly 1 billion internet users as they pledge tens of billions of dollars for its AI sector. Amazon.com Inc. said last week it’s on track to invest $12.7 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure by the end of the decade. OpenAI Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are also planning investments in ...