BENGALURU: Accenture is training more than 250,000 people in AI. It recently said it’s investing $3 billion over three years in its data and AI practice to help clients across all industries. The data & AI practice will double its AI talent to 80,000 professionals through a mix of hiring, acquisitions, and training.
In a earnings call, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said: “We have already trained approximately 600,000 of our people in the fundamentals of AI. And we are taking a further step to equip more than 250,000 people… and using new AI tools equitably, sustainably and without bias.
With investments in our AI academy focused on deep AI and gen AI specialisation, we are also progressing towards our goal of doubling our deeply skilled data and AI practitioners from 40,000 to 80,000.” Accenture is seeing early days of monetisation for genAI deals.
In a earnings call, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said: “We have already trained approximately 600,000 of our people in the fundamentals of AI. And we are taking a further step to equip more than 250,000 people… and using new AI tools equitably, sustainably and without bias.
With investments in our AI academy focused on deep AI and gen AI specialisation, we are also progressing towards our goal of doubling our deeply skilled data and AI practitioners from 40,000 to 80,000.” Accenture is seeing early days of monetisation for genAI deals.