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Premji said AI will create wider opportunities for technology services firms, from advisory work to implementation and delivery at scale.
Talking about job and revenue deflation concerns stemming from AI, Premji tells Moneycontrol that the transition does not necessarily mean less revenue or fewer people, 'it just means a redistribution of what you’re doing'
Global digital engineering services are set to grow at a 22% CAGR and expected to cross $550 billion by 2030 with the AI layer alone adding around $275 billion, says Avendus report
Mistral’s rivals are also moving into India. Anthropic plans to open a Bengaluru office in early 2026, while OpenAI has said it will set up its first India office in New Delhi.
Meta's global policy chief Joel Kaplan told Moneycontrol that application layer is the right place for India to make the investment since the scale of investment to build foundation models is quite significant.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told Moneycontrol at Davos 2026 that the social media giant is eager to bring its wearables to India, since the demand has been huge.
Kartavya, state’s in-house AI-driven attendance platform developed by Centre for e-Governance, is being rolled out across departments to replace biometric devices
Karnataka’s Centre for e-Governance has identified a fully furnished 20,000 sq ft facility in Bengaluru, with CoE operating under IndiaAI Mission’s 40:40:20 funding model.
ElevenLabs’ India play initially accelerated through content creation and dubbing across multiple languages, but Reina said the next wave of growth is increasingly coming from “Agentic” deployments.
Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from handling about 1,500 calls a day to over 200,000 daily calls, marking a growth of more than 13,000 percent.
The strategic pivot must be toward the "infrastructure layer"; comprising sovereign cloud architectures, orbital computing arrays, and domain-specific edge silicon. These backend companies are what will thrive immensely
Discussions with potential clients are at an early stage and no binding agreements have been signed. The focus is on hyperscalers and AI-led firms looking for large-scale, high-density computing infrastructure
LTIMindtree plans to run a structured programme to attract talent from premium colleges while also paying them higher than regular freshers, the CEO told Moneycontrol in an interview
"Indians love AI and they love using it. I think it's going to be a great technology for India economically" Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Moneycontrol at Davos 2026
Clients, he noted, are no longer spending on AI because it sounds futuristic. Every discussion now centres on value.
Emergent will use the funds to launch new products, strengthen offerings to smartphone users, kickoff enterprise relationships (B2B sales), hire more employees and set up an office in Europe, Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO, told Moneycontrol.
AI changes the tools, cost structures and even what users expect. What it doesn't change: the hard work of figuring out what's worth building, for whom, and why they'll care. That's still the game
Neike said companies like Siemens are benefiting from the data centre boom because next-generation facilities look more like industrial systems than conventional server rooms.
In an interview to Moneycontrol at Davos 2026, Andrew Ng speaks about why open source should be key to India's AI strategy, why fears of mass AI-driven job losses are overstated, Google's comeback and the 'white-hot' AI race
“If you don't re-imagine the business, I don't think IT will be the big engine of jobs in India," Vijayakumar told Moneycontrol at World Economic Forum in Davos.
Feldman says India’s talent, infrastructure push and partnership ecosystem make it impossible for global AI companies to ignore the country.
The United States has steadily tightened its visa regime since President Donald Trump returned to power in 2024.
Joshi said cyber fraud now affects individuals and enterprises alike
In an interview to Moneycontrol, Andrew Ng says he remains cautiously optimistic and generally bullish about the sector and most of the leading players in the field
The AI researcher says most roles remain only partially automatable, though a small set of jobs faces real disruption
Calling it “the India century,” Tzitzon said he sees an explosion of energy and innovation across the country, including in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai.
In an interview to Moneycontrol, Andrew Ng said Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT are the two market leaders in horizontal information discovery but there is room in coding and many other business verticals.
At Davos, the AI pioneer says contributing to open models may secure India’s long-term AI access more effectively than sovereign control alone
AI has been at the heart of the discussions in Davos for several years, but what has shifted is looking at the technology through the lens of practical applications, Mergenthaler told Moneycontrol at Davos 2026.
Bocca said India has a “very ambitious plan” and is already achieving some of the key milestones “even earlier than planned,” pointing to India’s progress in building renewable capacity and expanding electricity infrastructure.
In a quarter where the larger business grew at a measured pace, AI clearly behaved like a different engine.
OpenAI will start showing ads to users on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in the United States in the coming weeks.
Wipro CHRO Saurabh Govil said the company has already hired over 5,000 freshers so far this fiscal
Prabhat, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) said that harmful synthetic media, particularly impersonation and deliberate deception, must be treated as misuse, not innovation.
Irina Ghose's appointment as Anthropic India MD comes as the Claude maker gears up to open its first India office in Bengaluru.
The AI firm said India ranks behind only the US in overall Claude.ai usage globally, with usage concentrated in a small set of countries, including Japan, the UK, and South Korea.
Workforce readiness still remains a concern. Just 36 per cent of India’s workforce is skilled in AI, versus a 44 per cent global average, the report showed.
The real challenge lies in crossing the gap between product readiness and global customers, Seema Rao, managing director for top partners India & corporate development at Google, has said
The changes apply to all users on X, including premium subscribers, the company said
Moreover, Infosys has generated over 28 million lines of code using Gen AI till now, a 12% increase sequentially.
Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) says it is among the first water utilities globally to adopt the patented technology at this scale, aimed at detecting inefficient pumps and improving energy efficiency and sustainability.
Are the Global investors signalling that India’s traditional technology narrative no longer excites them? Artificial Intelligence is quietly dismantling the labour-intensive model on which much of corporate India’s success was built
These exits include voluntary churn, routine attrition and other non-restructuring reasons, apart from the 7,800 employees TCS says it 'released' as part of its ongoing workforce review
TCS Q3 results: In the December quarter, the company reported $9.3 billion in deal total contract value
Project involves an initial investment of Rs 10,000 crore and will focus on sovereign data, compute and model development.
The Noida-headquartered IT major is looking for specialised talent in data and AI, digital engineering practice, cybersecurity practice, enterprise skills.
The advanced AI business grew nearly 20 percent sequentially, even as overall company revenue rose 4.2 percent quarter-on-quarter in constant currency terms.
TCS has worked on over 5,500 AI projects till date.
Cricket, with this huge following in the country, is the fastest way to make an AI brand feel mainstream, say marketers
Sachdeva’s breakthrough challenges one of the most studied problems in computer science, known as maximum flow, which supports how information, traffic, and resources move through networks
