Overview

• Enterprise tech spending and scalable digital platforms have shifted AI deployments in India from proofs of concept to value-generating initiatives.
• India’s AI talent pool of 600,000 professionals already represents 16% of the global workforce and is on track to reach 1.25 million by 2027.
• Prime digital infrastructure—Aadhaar, UPI, ONDC—and the launch of 45 new data centers in 2025 are supplying the data scale and computing resources needed for AI growth.
• More than 2,000 AI startups have emerged in the past three years, fueling innovation across industries from fintech to healthcare.
• The government-backed IndiaAI program has secured over Rs 10,000 crore to establish national compute facilities with access to 10,000 GPUs for research and model training.