Reliance and Adani Group are recruiting AI engineers at the India AI Summit. Amid huge investment in AI in the country, Adani will invest $100 billion and Google will invest $15 billion. Due to shortage of skilled professionals, companies are directly looking for talent.
Mumbai: India’s two largest conglomerates, Reliance Industries Ltd and Adani Group, are using the ongoing India AI Summit to recruit young engineers as the race to create advanced AI tools intensifies. Executives from both companies are sifting through resumes and GitHub profiles to select the best talent among investments from around the world.
The week-long summit features big names like Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver the keynote address. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the event is a global platform to showcase India’s vast software talent and its potential to shape the future of artificial intelligence. There has already been an investment of $50 billion in AI in the country.
On Monday, Anthropic PBC announced a partnership with Infosys Ltd to build advanced AI solutions for certain industries. Adani Group then announced plans to invest $100 billion in data centers by 2035, while Google promised $15 billion to build its first AI hub in India.
Officials present at the summit emphasized the shortage of skilled AI professionals. “This industry is still very small, so there are great opportunities for capable people,” said Priyanshi Bavishi, marketing executive at AdaniConnex Pvt Ltd. Viral Tank of Deloitte said recruitment is his priority: “Students have been coming in large numbers since morning and recruitment is at the top of our agenda. It works both ways. I am looking for people and they are looking for jobs.”
Siddharth Sood, Consulting Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, highlighted the demand for specialized roles. “We are a service-oriented country. But we are looking for ‘ideapreneurs’. AI for cyber, and cyber for AI — that’s the area I’m recruiting for,” he said.
The summit has also become a platform for companies like Dell Technologies and Salesforce to bypass traditional methods of recruitment, which often filter applicants through AI-software. By connecting directly with candidates, companies want to tap talent that might otherwise go unnoticed.