By forming alliances with the biggest IT services companies in India, Microsoft is stepping up its corporate AI initiative with the goal of accelerating the large-scale implementation of agentic AI. Each of Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro will release over 50,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses, bringing the total to over 200,000.
Agentic AI Scaling
Copilot, Microsoft’s conversational AI assistant integrated into Office and GitHub, is at the heart of what may grow to be one of India’s largest enterprise deployments of agentic AI—systems made to act independently and carry out multi-step tasks without human input, in addition to responding to prompts.
During Microsoft’s India AI Tour, Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella made the announcement. The business announced on Wednesday that it will spend $17.5 billion in the nation over the next three years to boost workforce-training initiatives, strengthen sovereign digital capabilities, and build cloud and AI infrastructure.
In addition to the $3 billion investment announced in January, which Microsoft stated it plans to completely implement by the end of 2026, this pledge is the company’s biggest in Asia.
Copilot integration across business operations
The IT giants will thoroughly integrate Microsoft Copilot and other agent-enhanced AI systems into key business operations, including deliveries, sales, finance, HR, and customer interaction, as part of the new collaboration. To produce high-value results, they will rethink their processes around human-agent cooperation.
For example, by increasing the use of agentic systems, the alliance is anticipated to boost Wipro’s AI-powered product, “Wipro Intelligence.” The collaboration will use AI to change TCS’s sales, HR, and finance departments.
The businesses stated in a statement that all TCS workers now have a customized AI coach and that democratizing technologies like GitHub Copilot and M365 Copilot are assisting internal technology and operational teams in digitizing procedures and autogenerating code.
According to a statement from Puneet Chandok, President of Microsoft India and South Asia, “these multinational corporations are going beyond trial to full-scale adoption, incorporating Microsoft Copilot into the fabric of everyday work.”
According to a recent EY-CII research, 23% of Indian businesses are at the pilot stage and over half (47%) have multiple active generative AI use cases. This is a significant change as businesses go from experimenting with AI tools to significantly enhancing their performance. Notably, 76% of business executives think that GenAI will have a big influence on business, according to the research.
