Tech Mahindra Launches GAiA – First Enterprise Edition Open Source AI Platform, Powered by Acumos

Tech Mahindra Launches GAiA – First Enterprise Edition Open Source AI Platform, Powered by Acumos

GAiA to enable enterprises across industry verticals to build, share and rapidly deploy AI-driven services and applications to solve business critical problems

Dallas, New Delhi – December 26 2018: Tech Mahindra Ltd. a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced the launch of visit GAiA – the first enterprise edition of open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform Acumos. GAiA will enable enterprises across industry verticals to build, share and rapidly deploy AI-driven services and applications to solve business critical problems.

GAiA will also provide support to enterprises in adopting open source AI platform offerings to implement custom use cases, models and integration services. It will be available for commercial purpose and will support open source distribution as well. The various industry solutions and the existing marketplace in GAiA will further be enriched through collaboration with academia, third-party Machine Learning developers and companies.

Manish Vyas , President , Communications , Media & Entertainment Business , and the CEO , Network Services , said, “As part of our TechMNxt charter, Tech Mahindra is committed to leveraging next generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real business problems of our customers. The need of the hour is to democratize our knowledge and expertise in AI and make it universally accessible. GAiA is a step in that direction and we believe that it will be the change agent to drive digital transformation journey of our customers.”

The platform is available in Beta and hosts a marketplace of Machine Learning (ML) models that can be applied to popular use cases in many industry verticals.

Andre Fuetsch, president , AT&T Labs , and chief technology officer at AT&T , said, “Our goal in launching the Acumos AI project was always to see it become an open platform to accelerate innovation in the AI ecosystem, and we are pleased to see that vision taking shape. GAiA, powered by Acumos, looks set to help broaden AI's reach even further and make it accessible to everyone.”

Ibrahim Haddad , Director of Research at The Linux Foundation , said, “Tech Mahindra has been a leader in the development of the Acumos AI platform, as well as the LF Deep Learning Foundation and open source generally. We are excited to see Tech Mahindra use Acumos in a real world solution, and look forward to seeing adoption of Acumos continue to grow.”

The launch of the GAiA platform is in line with Tech Mahindra’s TechMNxt charter which focuses on leveraging next generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence to address real world problems and meet the customer’s evolving and dynamic needs.

About Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates and the Society to Rise™. We are a USD 4.9 billion company with 118,390+ professionals across 90 countries, helping over 930 global customers including Fortune 500 companies. Our convergent, digital, design experiences, innovation platforms and reusable assets connect across a number of technologies to deliver tangible business value and experiences to our stakeholders. Tech Mahindra is the highest ranked Non-U.S. company in the Forbes Global Digital 100 list (2018) and in the Forbes Fab 50 companies in Asia (2018).

We are part of the USD 21 billion Mahindra Group that employs more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries. The Group operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in tractors, utility vehicles, after-market, information technology and vacation ownership.

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Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector Sells 16,510 Units in India During December 2018

Mahindra's Farm Equipment Sector Sells 16,510 Units in India During December 2018

Registers a 10% growth in the domestic market for the first nine months of the year

Mumbai, January 1, 2019: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.'s Farm Equipment Sector (FES), a part of the USD 20.7 billion Mahindra Group, today announced its tractor sales numbers for December 2018.

Domestic sales in December 2018 were at 16,510 units, as against 16,855 units during December 2017. Total tractor sales (domestic + exports) during December 2018 were at 17,404 units, as against 18,488 units for the same period last year. Exports for the month stood at 894 units.

Commenting on the month’s performance, Rajesh Jejurikar, President – Farm Equipment Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. said, “In December 2018, the Farm Equipment Sector has sold a total volume of 17,404 tractors (inclusive of exports). Even though the Rabi crop sowing has been lower than desired, we hope that the government's initiatives in the agri and rural sectors would enable tractor sales momentum in Q4 F19. In the Export market we sold 894 tractors.”

Farm Equipment Sector

December
Cumulative December

F18
F19
%Change
F18
F19
%Change

Domestic
16855
16510
-2%
236600
259243
10%

Exports
1633
894
-45%
11823
10315
-13%

Total
18488
17404
-6%
248423
269558
9%

*Exports include CKD

About Mahindra

The Mahindra Group is a USD 20.7 billion federation of companies that enables people to rise through innovative mobility solutions, driving rural prosperity, enhancing urban living, nurturing new businesses and fostering communities. It enjoys a leadership position in utility vehicles, information technology, financial services and vacation ownership in India and is the world’s largest tractor company, by volume. It also enjoys a strong presence in agribusiness, aerospace, commercial vehicles, components, defense, logistics, real estate, renewable energy, speedboats and steel, amongst other businesses. Headquartered in India, Mahindra employs over 2,40,000 people across 100 countries.

Learn more about Mahindra on www.mahindra.com / Twitter and Facebook: @MahindraRise

Media contact information:

Mohan Nair
Vice President (Communications)
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
Office Direct Line – + 91 22 28468510
Office Email Address – nair.mohan@mahindra.com

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