The Indian conglomerate Tata, along with its largest company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., has formed an artificial intelligence alliance with OpenAI Inc. It extends from Agentic AI to the data centers of the world’s largest Internet community outside of China.
OpenAI, which is working to raise more than $100 billion, will collaborate with TCS on efforts to infuse AI into all of its clients’ and its own operations. One of the pillars of the agreement will be TCS’s development of a 100 MW data center that can be expanded to 1 GW. A 1 GW data center typically costs between $35 billion and $50 billion.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is in India for an AI summit, is engaged in a massive construction spree to build data centers in the United States and abroad, as he seeks a leadership position in artificial intelligence against rivals such as Alphabet Inc. The Anthropic PBC. OpenAI said it would invest up to $500 billion through a project called Stargate and expanded that to $1.4 trillion.
In India, OpenAI and TCS will also collaborate to build so-called proxy solutions for specific industries. These AI services are able to operate autonomously in certain circumstances, reducing the need for human intervention.
TCS, a leading provider of technology services to enterprise clients, will build out its OpenAI offering globally. They will also work together to provide AI training and resources to Indian youth.
At the Tata Group, several thousand employees will have access to the enterprise version of ChatGPT.
OpenAI is nearing completion of the first phase of a new funding round that will likely bring in more than $100 billion, Bloomberg News reported, a record funding deal that will give the startup additional capital to build its AI tools.
