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India AI Summit is Turning Out to Be a Recruiter’s Paradise

Some companies have managed to find suitable candidates.

An attendee at a developer event organized by OpenAI last month in Bengaluru, India Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg

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By Menaka Doshi and Jeanette Rodrigues

February 17, 2026 at 11:51 AM UTC

Welcome to India Edition, Bloomberg’s daily dive into what’s moving the worlds of business, markets and politics in this dynamic, fast-paced economy. I’m Menaka Doshi. If you didn’t receive this directly in your inbox, you can subscribe here, and share feedback with us here. Want more? Sign up for Markets Daily India, a subscriber-only newsletter featuring key insights before the trading day starts.

Today, Bloomberg’s Saritha Rai and Sankalp Phartiyal run into talent scouting at the AI Summit and Jeanette Rodrigues interviews Infosys’ Chief Technology Officer on the company’s AI strategy.

Over the next two years, India expects to attract more than $200 billion in artificial intelligence-driven investments, according to Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. That money will chase chips, data centers, models and, most importantly, talent. That hunt has intensified this week, reports Bloomberg.