TCS takes on OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft; to build a team of forward-deployed engineers; CEO K Krithivasan says: We would be ensuring …

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed engineers as it expands its artificial intelligence (AI) business. The move puts India’s largest IT services company in direct competition with firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon, which are also hiring engineers to help customers adopt AI. As per a Reuters report, the company is also looking at acquisitions in AI, data security and cybersecurity. TCS CEO K Krithivasan said the company wants 1% to 1.5% of its workforce to become forward-deployed engineers (FDEs). “We would be … ensuring that we have as many as 1% to 1.5% of our associates who could be what you would call FDEs,” Krithivasan said.