Tech Trends 2025: India outlook

Not more AI—but all-pervasive AI. Just as we no longer pause to appreciate the light flickering on or the inaudible HTTP protocol behind the internet, AI is going about becoming an ambient thing in our world.

Technology has become so integrated into our lives these days that we barely even notice it's even there. That is what AI is building, and one closer than you can think of. The "Tech Trends 2025" report represents a turning point for India, where AI-fueled breakthrough technologies fuel record levels of innovation, productivity and social transformation.

This year's Tech Trends report sets at the front of mind how AI is preparing the ground for nearly all of this year's new technology trends. AI is the foundation, which accelerates and enables innovation in many industries. It is not about AI itself—it is about how it creates a tidal wave of innovation and stimulates innovation in technology enablers. In India, this diffusion and integration of AI are already gaining steam in the tech landscape, transforming industries and creating the grounds for disruptive change. India's diverse and rapidly changing ecosystem only serves to underscore the growing need for leaders who will generalize across silos. Experts can excel in-depth, but the world of today needs generalists—visionaries who will connect the dots between industries and technologies.

With industries and technologies being increasingly convergent, Indian firms have just one agenda: they must embrace interdisciplinary approaches so that they are able to take advantage of game-changer prospects. If intersectoral collaboration merges agriculture with technology or by merging sophisticated AI with blockchain technologies, India has the ideal convergence of events to become a global innovation powerhouse.