Anthropic and OpenAI are the new darlings of Indian IT
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru/New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and Infosys Ltd’s partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic could prove a win-win for India’s under-pressure technology sector and the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) firms. The tie-ups echo earlier strategic pivots that powered expansion in enterprise software two decades ago and cloud services a decade later.
On Thursday, India’s second most valuable conglomerate Tata Group announced a partnership with San Francisco-based OpenAI. As part of this partnership, Tatas will use OpenAI’s generative AI application ChatGPT’s family of tools for varying uses. “Several thousand" employees will get access to premium versions of ChatGPT, Tata’s statement said.
The partnership will also include a multi-year partnership for OpenAI to use the in-progress data centre that TCS, the group’s biggest cash cow, is building since October. Tata’s move came two days after Infosys Ltd, India's second-largest information technology (IT) firm after TCS, announced a similar partnership with OpenAI’s closest rival, Anthropic. On 17 February, Infosys said it will develop AI software for firms in telecommunications, financial services, and manufacturing sectors using Anthropic’s AI platform, Claude.
As part of the deal, Anthropic will set-up a centre of excellence with Infosys to build and deploy AI agents. These are systems that do more than defined tasks such as processing claims, generating and testing code, or making sales pitches. In both the deals, both parties get their victories.
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