Bengaluru/New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and Infosys Ltd's partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic could prove a win-win for India's under-pressure technology sector and the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) firms. The tie-ups echo earlier strategic pivots that powered expansion in enterprise software two decades ago and cloud services a decade later.

On Thursday, India's second most valuable conglomerate Tata Group announced a partnership with San Francisco-based OpenAI. As part of this partnership, Tatas will use OpenAI's generative AI application ChatGPT's family of tools for varying uses.

"Several thousand" employees will get access to premium versions of ChatGPT, Tata's statement said. The partners...