Indians embracing AI agents is similar to the mobile revolution that propelled the country ahead, said a top executive at Google’s artificial intelligence research arm DeepMind, noting that the country is playing a key role in building agentic use cases.
“We are super excited about the agentic era in India, where we are deploying multiple agents,” Seshu Ajjarapu, senior director for applied AI at Google DeepMind, told ET. AI agents, or autonomous digital assistants capable of executing various tasks across apps for individual users, have emerged as a key narrative shaping the artificial intelligence landscape. Speaking to ET on the sidelines of Google I/O Connect India 2026 in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Mountain View, California-based Ajjarapu said India has a prominent role in the post-training phase, where one needs to build use cases around the model, which includes agentic use cases, and scientific discovery.
This requires models to follow instructions and engage in reinforcement learning with human feedback.