Demand for custom AI bots leads to hiring push at Happiest Minds

Companies across industries are asking for safe and reliable ways to use ChatGPT-like services, creating an opportunity for software developers far beyond generative-AI leaders such as OpenAI and Alphabet Inc’s Google, a tech executive said.

India’s Happiest Minds Technologies Ltd is planning to hire 1,300 software engineers, the IT services firm’s biggest staff growth push ever, as it builds out its artificial intelligence business to cater to clients in sectors such as education and health care seeking to tap the emerging technology, co-founder Joseph Anantharaju said in an interview. It now employs about 5,000 people.