India’s biggest opportunity in the artificial intelligence race may not come from building the largest AI infrastructure, but from its talent pool and ability to innovate under constraints, according to Snowflake chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy.
Speaking during a media briefing at Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco, Ramaswamy said countries such as India are unlikely to outcompete larger economies purely on the basis of power generation and compute capacity as AI models become increasingly resource-intensive.
