TCS to offer generative AI services to clients using Google tech

Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest information technology services firm by market cap, on Monday announced the launch of TCS Generative AI — a suite of applications that it will offer its clients. Krishnan Ramanujam, president of TCS’ enterprise growth group, said in a statement that the company is “investing in assets, frameworks and talent to harness the power of generative AI to enable growth and transformation for customers.” To be sure, this is not the first time that TCS has spoken about developing generative AI capabilities as part of its business offerings. On April 24, K Ananth Krishnan, chief technology officer at TCS, told Mint in an exclusive interview that despite a projected market downturn in tech spending, the company would not be reducing its research and development expenditure that it makes on new tech projects, which include the likes of generative AI and quantum computing. Salil Parekh, chief executive of Infosys, India’s second-largest IT services firm, also said that the company already had “active projects with clients working on generative AI platforms.” Others, including the likes of HCL Tech and Tech Mahindra, have also made strides in this nascent field, which rose to prominence with the advent of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot in November last year.