Overview
- Corporate tech spending and full-scale AI deployments across finance, healthcare and retail are propelling the market towards a threefold expansion by 2027.
- India’s AI workforce, which currently exceeds 600,000 professionals, is expected to grow to 1.25 million by 2027, accounting for 16% of the global talent pool.
- National digital platforms—including Aadhaar, UPI and DigiLocker—are serving as foundational infrastructure for scalable AI integration.
- The government’s IndiaAI mission is mobilizing ₹10,000 crore in compute capacity, including over 10,000 GPUs, to support large-scale model training.
- Over 4,500 AI startups are active in India, with 40% established in the past three years to tackle challenges from rural healthcare to vernacular education.