A new wave of AI adoption is taking shape in India as Microsoft announced fresh partnerships with Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro to accelerate the use of Copilot powered agentic artificial intelligence across the technology sector. The company said these collaborations will help IT firms deploy advanced AI workflows internally and offer them to clients at scale.
In a newsroom update, Microsoft said each partnering company will roll out more than 50,000 Copilot licenses, taking the combined total to over 2,00,000 licenses. These licenses will be used to build internal AI agents and develop agentic workflows for enterprise clients.
Microsoft referred to Cognizant as “client zero” for Copilot, highlighting that the firm worked closely with the company to refine the AI chatbot and build agentic solutions before a broader deployment. Cognizant will now use the technology to improve data access and decision making across client operations and internal processes. Its CEO Ravi Kumar S said, “We’re experiencing the largest infrastructure investment in tech history, with companies investing hundreds of billions annually into AI infrastructure. As an AI builder company, our mission is to bridge the gap between these investments and extracting business value, ensuring our associates and clients benefit from Generative AI.”
Infosys plans to integrate Microsoft’s intelligence layer with its Topaz Fabric and Cobalt platforms. The company said this will operationalise multi agent workflows and embed AI within its products and services. It expects the setup to support automated operations, faster insights and hybrid human agent collaboration for clients across global markets.
TCS aims to deploy Copilot and GitHub Copilot throughout its workforce and provide personalised AI coaching to employees. The company will also use these capabilities to enhance automation across Sales, Human Resources and Finance.
Wipro has committed to a three year collaboration with Microsoft that includes setting up a Microsoft Innovation Hub at its Bengaluru Partner Labs and large scale upskilling in Microsoft Cloud and GitHub technologies.
Microsoft said these partnerships will help India’s tech ecosystem rapidly build expertise in agentic tools, following the company’s recent investment commitment of $17.5 billion.
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