India’s knowledge base and entrepreneurial action are its key strength in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) arena, but the country lags behind other economies when it comes to retaining this talent, securing private investments and its intellectual property strengths, according to recent Stanford Artificial Intelligence (AI) Index 2025.
The AI Index report pegs India at the top when it comes to ‘AI hiring vibrancy.’
India, it says, experienced the highest growth in AI talent recruitment relative to the overall hiring rates. In 2024, the countries with the greatest relative AI hiring rates year-over-year were India (33.4%), followed by Brazil (30.8%) and Saudi Arabia (28.7%). The ‘relative AI hiring rate’ is the year-over-year change in AI hiring relative to the overall hiring in the same country.