India’s Tier-2 cities are emerging as potential destinations for artificial intelligence (AI) development, as technology entrepreneurs explore opportunities to build software products beyond established hubs such as Bengaluru.
\n\nIt reflects a broader question facing India’s technology industry: whether smaller cities can move beyond supplying engineering talent to metropolitan companies and develop enterprise AI platforms, intellectual property and globally competitive software businesses of their own.
\n\nAt the same time, companies located in smaller cities still have to contend with thinner pools of specialised senior talent, smaller investor networks and fewer neighbouring technology companies from which experienced employees can be recruited.
\n\nA latest case has been the venture of Renil Komitla built from his hometown in Andhra Pradesh, reflecting a broader question facing India's technology industry: how much of the next phase of product development needs to remain concentrated in the country's largest cities? Renil Komitla is testing a different proposition from Nellore.
\n\nKomitla launched Blazeup, an enterprise artificial intelligence platform, from the Andhra Pradesh city where he grew up. The software brings functions including human resources, finance, information technology service management, project management and customer relationship management into a common system.
\n\nThe launch is significant less for the arrival of another…
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