Infosys steps up push for AI business, says Vishal Sikka

Infosys chief executive Vishal Sikka says he would look at building the company's artificial intelligence (AI) offerings as a standalone business, independent of the traditional services, to help build next generation applications for its customers. With its artificial intelligence platform Mana, a part of the Infosys Aikido framework, the company is looking to help clients reduce costs and improve productivity through automation and free resources to build new applications that adds value to their business. "The AI platform is not only for our own use for simplifying our work, it is also for building great next generation applications for others," Sikka said at a Credit Suisse conference recently. "We want to do this as a standalone business in its own right, not something that is feature of our existing services." Experts say, while some companies take AI as a capability to all existing business verticals, Infosys may be looking at giving more attention to it, in order to take it to the market independently.