As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
The real African AI story is separate and ongoing, Nigerian fintech and Kenyan agtech applying AI to local problems, and it doesn't need India's outsourcing crunch as a hook to be worth covering on its own terms.
Indian IT firms are positioning themselves to fill U.S. companies' AI-implementation gap, even as automation threatens their own traditional outsourcing business. It's a notable case of an intermediary industry racing to build the thing that eventually replaces it. A direct African comparison would need actual data on African AI-services exports, which isn't available here.
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