TCS scales up Microsoft Azure partnership, to train 25,000 associates

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Tata Consultancy Services has announced plans to scale up its Azure Open AI expertise in order to help customers in their generative AI journey. The Tata Group firm launched its new Generative AI enterprise adoption offering on Microsoft Cloud.

TCS Microsoft Business Unit (MBU) also plans to get 25,000 associates trained and certified on Azure Open AI to help clients accelerate their adoption of the emerging technology, according to a press release. Generative AI enterprise adoption offering uses a proprietary transformation framework to bring together TCS’ knowledge and expertise in Azure Open AI service to help clients enhance customer experience, launch new business models, grow revenue, and enhance productivity.

«Using this framework, TCS and client teams will jointly ideate on AI-led solutions to their most pressing business problems, develop proofs of concept on Azure Open AI, create solution roadmaps, gather stakeholder feedback, train the models, build sufficiently strong guardrails and deploy the solutions,» the release added. The co-innovation can take place at TCS Pace Ports--their innovation and research hubs located in New York, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.

At these sites, the teams can also leverage work done by academic researchers and start-up partners from TCS’ innovation ecosystem. Additionally, TCS will help clients accelerate software development and boost programmer productivity through set-up and rollout services around Github Copilot, a generative AI tool built on Azure OpenAI's language models, that helps programmers develop code faster and with less effort..