Tata, OpenAI announce pact after Anthropic–Infosys tie-up
Kartavya Desk Staff
The Tata Group and OpenAI announced a “multi-dimensional strategic partnership” on Thursday. As a part of this partnership, OpenAI will be the first tenant of Tata’s HyperVault unit, with a capacity of 100 megawatts — and a future expansion capacity of 1 gigawatt, amounting to 0.2% of India’s current installed electric capacity. Some Tata employees will get access to OpenAI’s more advanced enterprise models, and the firms will work together to build agentic AI systems for TCS clients, the announcement said. Tata said it will also provide AI training to youth under this deal. The tie-up follows a similar deal between Claude maker Anthropic and Infosys, another systems integrator. Both IT firms’ stock prices sharply fell when Claude’s latest model, Opus 4.6, was released. The LLM supports sophisticated and autonomous coding, far beyond even the notable advances its predecessors had in designing codebases and writing snippets. With this deal, Tata seeks to signal that AI will add to their business, as opposed to take away from it, with investors fearing the latter. “AI is, in my opinion, the biggest opportunity for the tech sector and the IT industry because the IT industry’s real value is the context and understanding of every enterprise’s business and technology landscape, and making the right technology work inside the processes and the ecosystem, the supplier, customer and all the other connections an enterprise has,” Tata Group chairman N. Chandrasekaran said in a keynote on Thursday. This process, Mr. Chandrasekaran said, would benefit from AI. “We are adopting AI across the stack, from silicon to systems, to AI ready data centers, to applications and AI agents,” Mr. Chandrasekaran said, referring to Tata’s electronics manufacturing efforts. “And we believe such a vision and such a journey is going to be extremely exciting, and it will require us to work with world leading partners in India and across the globe.” ## Related Stories • US tech giants announce India deals at AI summit US tech giants announce India deals at AI summit • Microsoft to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs Microsoft to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs • India’s moment to restoring balance to copyright India’s moment to restoring balance to copyright Published - February 19, 2026 10:09 am IST ### Related Topics technology (general) / economy, business and finance