TATA Group and OpenAI Forge Foundational Partnership to Advance AI Transformation in India and Globally

The Tata Group, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) and OpenAI have announced a multi-dimensional strategic partnership that will drive AI-powered innovation across enterprise, consumer and social sectors. This partnership spans multiple high-impact areas, including powering AI-led innovation across Tata Group companies, joint efforts to drive AI transformation across industries globally and setting up AI infrastructure.

Key Highlights:

Empowering Tata Group employees with Enterprise ChatGPT: Several thousand Tata Group employees will get access to Enterprise ChatGPT, accelerating innovation and productivity. In addition, TCS will leverage OpenAI’s Codex to boost software engineering outcomes.

Building industry-specific Agentic AI solutions: Under this partnership, OpenAI, with its leading Agentic AI solutions and TCS, with its contextual knowledge of industries and deep AI skills, will come together to build impactful industry-specific solutions.

Joint go-to-market (GTM) initiatives: TCS and OpenAI will jointly enable Indian and global enterprises to transform with AI-powered solutions tailored to their organisational contexts. Through this collaboration, TCS will help its customers accelerate AI-led transformation by deploying, integrating and scaling OpenAI’s advanced AI platforms worldwide.

Developing AI infrastructure: TCS’ HyperVault unit and OpenAI have agreed to a multi-year partnership to develop AI infrastructure in India. In the initial phase, TCS will develop an AI infrastructure with 100MW capacity, with an option to scale to 1 GW. This infrastructure will power next-generation AI workloads and position India as a global AI hub.

Social Impact: The OpenAI Foundation and TCS will collaborate to provide AI training and resources to Indian youth, enabling them to apply AI responsibly and efficiently on a large scale. Together, they will develop technology toolkits for NGOs and launch initiatives focused on young people, aiming to improve the livelihoods of at least 1 million Indian youth.

TCS established HyperVault in 2025 with a vision to deliver gigawatt-scale secure, reliable, large-scale AIready infrastructure for hyperscalers and AI-driven organizations. Powered by green energy, it will offer purpose-built, liquid-cooled data centers with high rack densities and network connectivity across all key cloud regions. This partnership marks a pivotal moment in India’s vision to become a global leader in AI and build an ecosystem that accelerates AI development and adoption

Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, said, “India is already leading the way in AI adoption and with its talent, ambition and strong government support, it is well placed to help shape its future. Through OpenAI for India and our partnership with Tata Group, we’re working together to build the infrastructure, skills and local partnerships needed to build AI with India, for India and in India, so that more people across the country can access and benefit from it.”

N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons, said, “This deep collaboration between OpenAI and Tata Group marks a major milestone in India’s vision to become a global leader in AI. We are pleased to partner with OpenAI to create state-of-the-art AI infrastructure in India. This is a unique opportunity for OpenAI and TCS to transform industries. Together we will skill India’s youth and empower them to succeed in the AI era.”

About the Company

Tata Consultancy Services is the flagship company and a part of the Tata group. It is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation that has been partnering with many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive-powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions.

The company has a market cap of over Rs 9.91 lakh crore and has been maintaining a healthy dividend payout of 84 per cent. The company has a good return on equity (ROE) track record: 3 Years ROE 50.3 per cent. The stock is up by 6.4 per cent from its 52-week low of Rs 2,579 per share.

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