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Anand Mahindra

Chairman, Mahindra

Search every verified Anand Mahindra interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, addressed concerns about artificial intelligence's impact on the IT services industry during a recent shareholder meeting. He stated that AI will not kill the IT services sector but will instead make it more vital to enterprises. Mahindra argued that while imagining what AI can do is the easy part, making it work reliably, securely, and responsibly at enterprise scale is much harder, and that companies like Tech Mahindra are needed to integrate, govern, and shape AI around each enterprise's context. Mahindra compared AI to a smartphone, noting that the technology becomes indispensable only because of the apps, connectivity, and enterprises that bring it to life. He said that while building sovereign models is important, enterprises will increasingly need the ability to work across models, and that what will truly differentiate an enterprise is its own "alpha"—its data, workflows, judgment, and domain knowledge. Mahindra believes India's competitive strength lies in the "application layer" rather than in developing foundational models.

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