New Delhi: HCLTech announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to create industry solutions and drive business value with the tech giant's multimodal large language Artificial Intelligence (AI) model 'Gemini'.

With this, HCLTech will enable 25,000 engineers on Gemini for Google Cloud to help mutual clients innovate and optimise their businesses with GenAI.

"This collaboration will bring to market HCLTech's innovative GenAI solutions using Google's most capable and scalable Gemini models. We believe this helps us to bring even more value to global enterprises through the company's differentiated portfolio," C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD, HCLTech, said in a statement.

Moreover, the company said that it will enhance the recently launched HCLTech AI Force platform with Gemini's advanced code completion and summarisation capabilities, which will allow engineers to generate code, remediate issues and accelerate the delivery time and quality of software projects for clients.

“Gemini for Google Cloud can enhance many areas of enterprise work, such as helping developers build applications more quickly and improving how financial analysts report on their businesses. By enabling 25,000 engineers on Google Cloud's latest generative AI technology, HCLTech can provide the expertise and technical skills that clients need to successfully deploy and manage GenAI projects at scale," said Thomas Kurian, CEO, of Google Cloud.

 HCLTech will also use Gemini models to strengthen and expand the portfolio of industry solutions built out of its dedicated Cloud Native Labs and AI Labs, which focus on accelerating client innovation and are staffed by leading AI experts and engineers, the company said. Both labs will enable clients to better scope, manage and refine GenAI projects on Google Cloud's infrastructure.

HCLTech shares rose by as much as INR 30.4, or 2.0%, to INR 1,558.5 apiece on BSE after the news. At 2:00 PM, HCLTech shares were left with half of their intraday gain, up 1.0% for the day at INR 1,543.4 apiece.

HCL Technologies Limited, doing business as HCLTech (formerly Hindustan Computers Pvt. Limited), is a multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida. Founded by Shiv Nadar, it was spun out in 1991 when HCL entered the software services business. The company has offices in 52 countries and over 225,944 employees. In 2022, HCL Technologies rebranded as HCLTech.

In March 2021, HCL Technologies expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to bring HCL Software's Digital Experience (DX) and Unica Marketing cloud-native platforms to Google Cloud.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongside a set of management tools.[2] It runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs.

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