Marathon runner for all seasons

FOR GHOSE, Al IS MORE THAN ATOOL; ITIS A FORCE MULTIPLIER FOR WOMEN AT WORK. ACROSS INDUSTRIES, ITIS REWRITING THE SCRIPT

- SUDHIR CHOWDHARY

SOMETIMES YOU JUST got to grit your teeth and persist.

Running the marathon regularly taught her just that -- the importance of perseverence, Irina Ghose, the newly appointed managing director at Anthropic India, had said in an interview while she was still COO, Microsoft India.

Those qualities -- grit, determination and perseverence -- will come in handy for Ghose as she scales Anthropic' operations in India, with the country becoming the second-largest market globally for its AI chatbot, Claude.ai. “India has a real opportunity to shape how AI is built and deployed at scale," she says of her new role."Indian organisations are moving beyond experimentation toward applied AI, where trust, safety, and long-term impact matter as much as innovation.”