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India is ready to scale up to a USD 750 billion IT industry, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), innovation and companies that deeply understand customer needs, CP Gurnani, former CEO of Tech Mahindra, said on Wednesday. According to the NITI Aayog, the Indian technology services industry is estimated to grow from USD 265 billion this year to USD 750-850 billion by 2035. After stepping down in December 2023, Gurnani founded AIONOS with the vision of building a next-generation services company powered by AI and platform-based models. He believes India's IT industry can grow from USD 275-300 billion at present to USD 750 billion by 2035 but only through innovation, deep customer understanding, and outcome-driven business models. "India is ready for scale up. India is ready for USD 750 billion IT industry. Clearly, the answer lies in innovation. The answer lies in understanding what the customer wants," he said at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. He emphasised that the future of
Indian IT major Tech Mahindra on Monday made it to a list of organisations leading the real-world AI adoption, alongside global giants like AMD, Siemens and PepsiCo. Produced by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture, the report on MINDS (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel Deployable Solutions) organisations listed 20 pioneers driving high-impact AI solutions in disease detection, energy optimization, supply-chain resilience and more. It analysed hundreds of cases in more than 30 countries and over 20 industries (including healthcare, energy and infrastructure). An independent Impact Council of leading executives and experts identified clear common patterns among the most promising cases. These included embedding AI into strategic decision-making, redesigning work to strengthen human-AI collaboration, strengthening data foundations, modernizing technology platforms and supporting all of this with responsible governance. Releasing the report during its annual meeting .
IT services firm Tech Mahindra on Tuesday said it has entered into a licensing agreement with AT&T to offer telecom operators a highly automated solution for conducting network health checks and connectivity tests, ensuring more robust and reliable networks. As part of the deal, Tech Mahindra will use AT&T's Automated Network Testing (ANT) and Open Tool platforms to transform network testing and certification for LTE and 5G networks globally, the company said in a statement. "Tech Mahindra today announced a licensing agreement with AT&T for its proprietary ANT and Open Tool platforms. These applications deliver an advanced platform designed to transform network testing and certification across Long Term Evolution (LTE), 5G Non-Standalone (NSA), and 5G Standalone (SA) domains, it said. The ANT platform features a user-friendly interface and an automated backend, integrating multiple industry traffic generation tools for streamlined test execution and validation. The Open ..