India's largest home-grown e-commerce giant, Flipkart, is making a big push for artificial intelligence (AI). A new unit, AI For India, will use AI technologies to mine the consumer data that Flipkart has gathered over the last decade to strengthen its business offerings, a company blog post said on Dec. 21.

India's largest homegrown e-commerce giant, Flipkart, is making a big push for artificial intelligence (AI). A new unit, AI For India, will use AI technologies to mine the consumer data that Flipkart has gathered over the last decade to strengthen its business offerings, a company blog post said on Dec. 21. Flipkart will invest "hundreds of millions of dollars" in AI For India over the next few years, co-founder and group chairman Sachin Bansal told the Mint newspaper. The new unit will be headed by Flipkart's chief data scientist Mayur Datar. Bansal, along with CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, will directly work on some key projects.