Global companies expect AI to accelerate the creation of new products and intellectual property at their Indian technology hubs, underlining the country’s growing role as an innovation base even as the futuristic technology reshapes work.

Executives from Publicis Groupe’s Epsilon, Kimberly-Clark and Daimler Truck told Reuters automation is helping staff at their global capability centres ‌move beyond routine tasks, focusing instead on more complex work and building proprietary technology.

The Tamil Nadu government has initiated discussions on implementing its artificial intelligence-driven governance agenda, with the newly formed Ministry for Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Digital Services holding its first high-level review meeting to outline priorities for digital infrastructure and AI-led administration.

India is embracing artificial intelligence at the exact moment its employment engine is weakening. The outsourcing and IT sectors that built the urban middle class are now aggressively automating the very work that built them: coding, customer support, analytics, documentation, and testing

Founded by entrepreneur Abhinav Kukreja, Neocambrian AI has announced its launch with a focus on building large-scale human action datasets for robotics and embodied AI systems. Kukreja had earlier founded DataVantage, an AI powered marketing workflows for medium and large technology enterprises.

Artificial intelligence is often imagined as something that lives in the cloud. In reality, it lives on the ground, drawing vast amounts of electricity, occupying land, and reshaping industrial geography. As India embraces AI, the challenge is no longer just technological ambition, but how the country fits into the physical and economic systems that make AI possible.