Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said – India is on the path to becoming the world’s largest developer community by 2030.

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 10, 2025

New Delhi, 10 December. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday that India is moving rapidly towards becoming the world’s largest developer community by 2030. He highlighted India’s growing talent pool and the country’s emerging leadership potential in next generation AI innovation.

AI is changing the way systems are designed

At the ‘Microsoft Leadership Connection’ event, Nadella explained how new tools and platforms are changing the way people develop software, build applications and design multi-agent AI systems. According to Nadella, ‘India is projected to have 57.5 million developers by 2030, making the country the largest developer base globally.’

Every time I visit India, I’m struck by how AI is already starting to have a profound impact on people’s lives.
A great example is our partnership with the @LabourMinistry to help connect more than 300 million informal workers to better jobs and social security, showing what’s…
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) December 10, 2025

Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella, 58, called it an important opportunity for India to develop solutions at the societal level using AI. He said developers in India are already using GitHub, Azure and Microsoft’s new AI platforms for advanced projects that were earlier limited only to large research labs.

The future of software development is now a single Not limited to AI models

Nadella also gave information about Microsoft’s new toolchain for AI application development – AppBuilder, Copilot Studio and Foundry. He said that the future of software development is no longer limited to a single AI model, but focuses on building a comprehensive ecosystem where developers can choose the model that suits them, evaluate it, and deploy it with confidence.

He said, Microsoft is investing extensively in this ecosystem so that developers – especially developers from India, can create next generation applications. Applications that can seamlessly integrate with existing data and systems used by businesses.

$17.5 billion investment in India in next 4 years

Meanwhile, the global tech giant informed on Tuesday that the company will invest $17.5 billion in India in the next four years. This announcement was made after Nadella’s meeting with Prime Minister Modi.