Indian IT’s big boys admit concerns around AI-led deflation
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While companies expect increased tech work to offset the impact of AI, analysts expect that to be some time away.On 9 April, the country’s largest IT services company first acknowledged AI-led deflation in its traditional services.“You would expect AI revenues to increase going forward, along with some of the traditional revenues to slowly taper down and AI revenue to overcompensate for the reduction in the revenue in other parts of the service line,” said K. Krithivasan, chief executive of TCS, during the company’s post-earnings analyst call.
The company reported $30.02 billion in revenue last fiscal, down 0.54% on a yearly basis. Its annualized AI revenue totalled $2.3 billion.The management of Infosys, the second-largest IT services firm, voiced a similar opinion.“So, the compression is coming on some of the services, and the growth is coming on other services, and the compression is typically in the areas where the AI foundation models and some of the tools are very efficient,” said Salil Parekh, CEO of Infosys, during the company’s post-earnings press conference on 23 April.The arrival of AI models like
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