India, Oct. 29 -- AI has moved on from being a buzzword to a force multiplier technology that is proactively being deployed across industries. Indian enterprises and boardrooms, specifically, are done exploring pilots and proofs of concept. Now, they want AI in production. Now, they are deploying AI to increase efficiency, streamline workflows and automate every process that can be improved. This shift is the backdrop to the partnership between IBM and Yotta Data Services, which brings IBM's agentic AI platform, watsonx Orchestrate, onto Yotta's GPU-powered Shakti Cloud platform, with the control layer secured through Sovereign Core.

It's also an important part of the conversation that we had with Sriram Raghavan, General Manager, IBM So...