New Delhi

Indianow has an estimated 9.2 lakh AI professionals as the majority of total hiring demand of 3.5 lakh roles moved sharply from experimentation to execution, a report said on Wednesday.

India’s 9.2 lakh AI professionals comprise about 2.57 lakh in Core AI roles and 6.63 lakh in AI embedded roles, the report from workforce solutions firm Quess Corp said, and employers are increasingly seeking talent that can deploy, govern, integrate and scale AI within real business workflows.

Governance, AgentOps, runtime operations, evaluation and quality assurance functions accounted for 26 per cent of hiring demand as AI adoption matures. Organisations are placing greater emphasis on these roles to ensure AI systems are secure, reliable and enterprise-ready.