Making a strong pitch for India at Davos 2026, Cerebras co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman said the country’s role in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem is impossible to ignore.
“As a market, as a place to partner, as a place to deploy gear, I think one would be a fool to overlook India,” Feldman said in an interview with Moneycontrol's Chandra R Srikanth. "I think one would be a fool to overlook India," he added.
He said Cerebras already has an expanding presence in the country.
“We have a facility in Bangalore, and we’re growing steadily. This year, touch wood, we seek to increase substantially,” he said.
Feldman highlighted India’s talent base as its biggest strength.
“India has some of the best universities in the world. They’ve got the human capital,” he said, adding that "I think India has a collection of some of the world’s leading software engineers, and we’re seeing more and more interesting AI work come out of India.”
According to him, the core ingredients for leadership in artificial intelligence already exist in India. “There’s the desire and the willingness to put up the capital,” he said. “I think all of these things are present in India.”
“If they choose, India can be one of the global AI powerhouses,” Feldman said. “It takes work, it takes effort, but the fundamentals are already there.”
His comments come at a time when India is stepping up its national AI push through the IndiaAI Mission, which aims to build large-scale computing infrastructure, expand access to high-quality datasets, support homegrown AI models, and create a strong ecosystem for startups and research institutions.
The mission focuses on building AI capacity that is affordable, inclusive and deployable at population scale.
India is also preparing to host the India AI Impact Summit, which is expected to bring together global technology leaders, policymakers, startups and researchers to discuss how artificial intelligence can be used responsibly and at scale in areas such as healthcare, education, agriculture, governance and industry.
On partnerships, Feldman said India is already central to Cerebras’s global strategy.
“We are seeking partnerships around the world, and we have partnerships in India,” he said. “As a market, as a place to partner, as a place to deploy gear, one would be a fool to overlook India.”
He added that India’s importance in the global AI ecosystem will only grow stronger. “This is how AI diffuses through an entire economy,” Feldman said, underscoring why India is increasingly critical to the global AI story.
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