India Inc signals mega Albet, global CEOs double down

INDIA'S BIGGEST CONGLOMERATES used the India AI Impact Summit as a launchpad for bold capital commitments on Thursday, even as global technology leaders framed India as the next great theatre of artificial intelligence growth.

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The message to the world was clear: India doesn't just want to use AI. It wants to build it, scale it and price it for the world.

While Tata Group and Reliance Industries put hard numbers and partnerships on the table, global CEOs such as Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai and Dario Amodei pitched India as both a talent powerhouse and a large-scale deployment market in the unfolding AI race.

At a time when IT stocks are reeling from AI-led disruption -with Tata Consultancy Services slipping to a five-year low -Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran unveiled what he described as a roadmap for the Tata Group's AI-led future. The group plans to build India's first 100-megawatt AI infrastructure capacity in partnership with OpenAI, signalling a shift from merely consuming AI to helping create core digital infrastructure for it.