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Mphasis Uses AI Arbitrage to Take on Bigger IT Rivals
The IT services and consulting firm is funding its AI platforms by redeploying margins rather than stretching profits.
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- By Mohit Pandey
Amidst all the vibe coding partnerships and heavy enterprise AI adoption, Mphasis has quietly positioned itself as one of the most aggressive adopters of AI in Indian IT. In the June quarter, the company posted modest revenue growth, but secured record contract wins worth $760 million, 68% of which were AI-led.
According to chief solutions officer (CSO) Ramanathan Srikumar, this is the result of nearly a decade of early bets like Next Labs, which was started in March 2015, and has been experimenting with AI and other emerging technologies for a decade. It currently is also focused on quantum computing.
“We started playing with LLMs when it was not in the popular lexicon,” Srikumar said. The guiding philosophy at Mphasis has been to maximise productivity of domain expe
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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