Global centres of multinational firms in India are increasingly putting artificial intelligence to work in creative ways. Heads of several Global Capability Centres told reporters they are deploying artificial intelligence across a host of functions.

BYD Executive Vice President Li Ke confirmed the automotive company is developing humanoid robots in-house for global 4S dealership showrooms and future home use. The internal initiative is codenamed the Yao-Shun-Yu project and has reached its seventh generation of iteration.

Samsung Electronics plans to invest 39 trillion dong, or 1.5 billion USD, in Vietnam to build a semiconductor testing plant. The proposal document shows this expansion will help ease a global shortage of memory chips driven by surging artificial intelligence demand.