UK's Deloitte launches AI incubator to serve Indian, global companies

UK-headquartered auditing and consulting giant Deloitte has launched Global Generative AI Market Incubator to promote innovation in generative AI and serve businesses in India and across the globe.

According to the company's statement, The newly-launched AI incubator will leverage the in-depth sector knowledge and AI/ML expertise of its professionals, including data scientists and engineers.

Deloitte says these professionals work through a multi-disciplinary model built on design thinking to ensure speed, faster time to market, and immediate value generation in critical projects.

At present, Deloitte has active global engagements in the areas of drug discovery, customer experience, content generation, and personal avatars marking over 100 corporations in the past six months. 

Nitin Mittal, Deloitte Global Consulting Emerging Markets Leader, said, "Our focus is to harness generative AI's disruptive potential in partnership with our key alliances by leveraging our targeted industry solutions that help clients realise sustainable business outcomes and achieve real transformations."

He added, “To catalyse the market, we are collaborating with premier academic institutions and industry bodies and rapidly scaling trained generative AI talent pool across skills. This will nurture local tech talent and provide them more opportunities to serve global clients from India on these fast-evolving technologies.”

Sathish Gopalaiah, President, Consulting at Deloitte India, said, "As pioneers, we are creating industry-leading capabilities while helping customers navigate emerging challenges and disruptions. Through this initiative, we aim to resolve unique industry cases by providing the right strategy and drawing on the strengths of our collaboration with alliance partners. We officially launched the Gen AI practice in June this year. This launch shall further accelerate Gen AI deployments and bring global best practices.” 

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