Microsoft is deepening its enterprise AI push in India through partnerships with the country’s largest IT services firms, aiming to accelerate deployment of agentic artificial intelligence at scale. Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro will each roll out more than 50,000 Microsoft Copilot licences, taking the combined total past 200,000.
Scaling Agentic AI
Copilot, Microsoft’s conversational AI assistant embedded across products including Office and GitHub, is central to what could become one of India’s biggest enterprise deployments of agentic AI—systems designed not just to respond to prompts but to act autonomously and execute multi-step tasks without human input.
Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announced the initiative during Microsoft’s India AI Tour. On Wednesday, the company said it would invest $17.5 billion in the country over the next three years to expand cloud and AI infrastructure, bolster sovereign digital capabilities and scale workforce-training programmes.
The commitment, the company’s largest in Asia, comes on top of the $3 billion investment announced in January, which Microsoft said it expects to fully deploy by the end of 2026.
Integrating Copilot across business functions
Under the new partnership, the IT majors will integrate Microsoft Copilot and other agent-enhanced AI systems deeply across core business functions such as delivery, sales, finance, HR, and customer engagement. They will redesign their workflows around human-agent collaboration to deliver high-value outcomes.
For instance, the partnership is expected to amplify Wipro’s AI-powered offering “Wipro Intelligence” by accelerating the adoption of agentic systems. At TCS, the partnership will transform sales, HR, and finance functions through AI.
Democratising tools like M365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot are helping internal technology and operations teams autogenerate code and digitize processes, the companies said in a statement, adding that all TCS employees now have a personalized AI coach.
“These global enterprises are moving beyond experimentation to full-scale deployment, embedding Microsoft Copilot into the fabric of everyday work,” said Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia, in a statement.
A recent EY-CII report shows that nearly half of Indian enterprises (47%) now have multiple Generative AI use cases live, while 23% are in the pilot stage. This marks an important shift where enterprises are moving from piloting AI tools to substantially improving their performance. Notably, the report added that 76% of business leaders believe that GenAI will have a significant business impact.