It’s a wrap: News this week (May 11 – 15)

From AI-powered retail to river mapping with drones, India's tech sector closed the week with a string of deals and investments that signal where enterprise priorities are headed. Here's a rundown of the week's key moves.

TCS Bets on Agentic Commerce with Rezolve AI

Tata Consultancy Services announced a global strategic partnership with Rezolve AI, marking its entry into the agentic AI commerce market. Under the agreement, TCS will resell Rezolve's AI-powered commerce platform to enterprise clients globally, giving Rezolve access to one of the broadest client relationships and delivery footprints in the world.

The partnership will enable retail enterprises to use Rezolve AI's intelligent commerce platform, brainpowa, to build AI-led experiences across conversational commerce, intelligent discovery, and agentic checkout. Global retailers will also be able to test these solutions across TCS's global network of Pace Port innovation centers.

HCLTech and Red Hat Build AI Factory for the Enterprise

HCLTech announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to deliver enterprise-grade AI infrastructure for organizations accelerating their AI adoption. The partnership strengthens HCLTech's AI Factory solution ecosystem, built on Red Hat AI Enterprise, providing an integrated foundation for running AI workloads consistently across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.

The solutions are designed to improve infrastructure efficiency and reduce inference costs through model optimization, distributed serving, and unified operations, while offering an enterprise-grade data foundation with governance and lineage to support reliable AI operations at scale.

Zoho Puts ₹70 Crore into ONDC to Back Open Commerce

Zoho Corporation announced an investment of ₹70 crore in the Open Network for Digital Commerce to support the development of sovereign technology in India, with a focus on making digital commerce more accessible to MSMEs.

In India, around 12 million people earn a living from selling or reselling goods, yet only around 15,000 of these sellers currently use e-commerce solutions. ONDC was set up by the government to change this, aiming to increase e-retail penetration from its current level of around 4.3%. In FY 2025–26, the network enabled 218 million transactions, with rural order volumes from farmers, artisans, and small sellers growing 11 times. Zoho already operates on the ONDC network through its Vikra seller app and suite of business tools including Zoho Books and Zoho Inventory.

Genesys Wins NMCG Contract to Map the Ganga from the Air

Genesys International Corporation secured a project from the National Mission for Clean Ganga under the Ministry of Jal Shakti to conduct an aerial LiDAR survey and geotagged videography of the drainage system of River Ganga. The project spans four states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal — and will use manned aerial platforms and drones to capture high-resolution geospatial data for the river corridor and its associated drainage systems.

The work covers aerial LiDAR survey, photogrammetry, orthorectified imagery, and geotagged videography of natural and man-made drainage systems that feed into the river. The contract is part of the government's broader effort to build a GIS-ready database of the Ganga basin to support flood planning, pollution monitoring, and river conservation.