“While existing clients can come, try and discuss their problem statements, they will also collaborate for proof of concepts in such labs after hearing from subject matter experts,” said Pareekh Jain, chief executive of engineering insight platform EIIRTrend. “The labs also help conceive new ideas and solutions. Newer and smaller clients would also come to evaluate their small pilots and take them to the production stage. Eventually, these labs would become a fertile ground where the seeds for many large IT deals would germinate in the days to come.”
Ireland-based Accenture opened a series of labs across the globe as part of its $3 billion data and AI investment announced last year. “Clients interested in pursuing commercial uses of generative AI will be able to visit the studios at Accenture Innovation Hubs in Chicago, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington, DC,” the company said recently while launching its GenAI studios in North America. TCS opened two studios, in Manila and Stockholm, in August to offer its customers in Asia Pacific and the Nordic region access to its innovation ecosystem. The studios are also meant for TCS to co-innovate with customers to meet their specific business needs.
Earlier in May, it announced the creation of a Global Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Paris, adding to similar facilities in Amsterdam, London, New York, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Tokyo. Cognizant, the US-based IT services firm, in March announced the launch of an advanced AI lab in San Francisco that would focus on advancing the science and practice of AI through innovation and development of intellectual property and AI-enablement technologies.
