{"id":1042514,"date":"2026-10-12T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042514"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:03:28","slug":"ai-investment-surges-in-india-but-adoption-stays-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/ai-investment-surges-in-india-but-adoption-stays-low\/","title":{"rendered":"AI investment surges in India, but adoption stays low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Private investment in AI in India more than tripled to $4.1 billion in 2025 from $1.2 billion in 2024. However, only 23.4 per cent of Indian firms reported using AI, compared with 42.7 per cent of firms in the United States, according to a World Bank survey released on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The gap is wider when adoption is measured by whether companies pay for AI. Only 3.5 per cent of Indian firms reported paying for AI software or subscriptions, compared with 23.1 per cent of US firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Private investment in AI in India more than tripled to $4.1 billion in 2025 from $1.2 billion in 2024. However, only 23.4 per cent of Indian firms reported using AI, compared with 42.7 per cent of firms in the United States, according to a World Bank survey released on Tuesday. The gap is wider when adoption is measured by whether companies pay for AI. Only 3.5 per cent of Indian firms reported paying for AI software or subscriptions, compared with 23.1 per cent of US firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042549,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042514\/revisions\/1042549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}