Demand for Gen AI courses surge as working professionals rush to keep themselves relevant
generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) courses has surged about threefold in the past one year with working professionals rushing to make themselves adept in the new technology, said industry executives.
The trend is being driven by professionals seeking to stay competitive in a fast-evolving job market and to safeguard themselves against layoffs by futureproofing their careers through upskilling, said executives of edtech companies such as Upgrad, Great Learning, Simplilearn and Coursera.
“Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and automation are reshaping industries, creating a pressing demand for professionals versed in AI-related skills… Professionals are proactively future-proofing their careers by acquiring expertise in generative AI,” said Hari Krishnan Nair, co-founder, Great Learning.
“Our AI-ML (machine learning) programmes have a generative AI component for which we have seen a 33% increase in uptake over the last six months, and for programmes that are specifically on Gen AI, we have seen 2.6 times growth in the last four months.”
The demand for Gen AI courses in India increased 195% year-onyear in the first quarter of 2024, according to Kashyap Dalal, chief operating officer at Simplilearn. “We have seen over 300,000 professionals skilled in Gen AI through our various programmes over the last year,” he said.
“All companies are rapidly adopting Gen AI in areas like content writing, workflow and process automation, customer
