🏭 India is becoming the "world's AI factory"
A Financial Times film tells the story of the transformation of the Indian tech sector: from traditional outsourcing to mass data labeling (RLHF) and video data collection for training humanoid robots.
🌍 A shift is occurring in the AI value chain: model development remains in the West, while India becomes a global data supplier. This is forming a new class of "human-machine" labor.
👤 The Indian case highlights the risk of the economy turning into a "digital factory" with low added value, where old IT services are replaced by new roles in data annotation.
Source 1: https://www.ft.com/video/5a5733ea-f8fa-488f-906d-418584b8bc36 Source 2: https://businessdatasolutions.github.io/ai-wiki/sources/2026-06-25-the-ai-factory-the-rewiring-of-indias-tech-industry