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Publication Date: 2026-10-12 16:54:00
India’s AI adoption journey is anything but uniform. “Some customers are experimenting in the public cloud. I think it’s the easiest way to start experimenting and really trying out what you can do with AI. But some customers have actually moved on to realize concerns around token cost and governance and starting to really focus on actually doing things within their private domain,” says Anindo Sengupta, VP of AI, Cloud-native and NeoCloudSPs, Nutanix.
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Interestingly, Sengupta doesn’t see any particular industry dominating production deployments yet. Indian IT companies made early moves, but enterprises across industries remain at different stages of maturity.
According to Sengupta, India’s startup ecosystem, particularly the ones based in Bengaluru, could become a significant driver of AI adoption. “India is a huge startup hub. I work closely with the startup ecosystem in Bengaluru and they are really leading a lot of the adoption for all the right reasons.”
This sentiment is echoed by Faiz Shakir, Vice President, Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Nutanix, although he believes Indian CEOs are now treating AI as a strategic necessity, not just a fringe experiment. “Different enterprises are at different stages of adopting and monetizing AI. But I think what’s very clear is that everyone has realized that they need to have an AI strategy…
