India, April 8 -- India's AI story is clearly moving beyond experimentation, but enterprise maturity and confidence are still evolving slowly. While 59% of organisations in India are already piloting or systematically adopting AI, and another 23% are considering adoption, readiness at scale remains uneven. At the same time, India is not just expanding capacity. It is rearchitecting its infrastructure stack for hybrid, distributed, and inference-led AI, as the Lenovo CIO Playbook 2026 makes clear.

In this interview, Srinivas Rao, Managing Director, India, Lenovo ISG, unpacks the fourth edition of the Lenovo CIO Playbook 2026: The Race for Enterprise AI, commissioned by Lenovo with insights from IDC. He explores key themes such as inferenc...