IT firm Cognizant has introduced an initiative to industrialise ‘agentic AI’ throughout enterprises by deploying 1,000 context engineers over the subsequent yr.
The transfer marks an vital funding within the rising self-discipline of context engineering, which is important to enabling AI brokers to cause, act, and adapt in alignment with enterprise objectives, a launch from the corporate stated.
As a part of this initiative, Cognizant is partnering with Workfabric AI, the corporate constructing the context engine for enterprise AI.
Cognizant’s 1,000 context engineers will probably be powered by Workfabric AI’s ContextFabric platform, which transforms the organisational DNA of enterprises (how their groups work, together with their workflows, information, guidelines, and processes) into actionable context for AI brokers, the discharge added.
Each expertise shift creates a companies shift, stated Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant.
Within the microprocessor period, the lever was code. Within the cloud period, it was workload migration, whereas within the LLM period, the lever is context, he identified.
“Cognizant’s deep experience in engineering, operations, and business domains positions us to create distinctive worth. By coaching 1,000 context engineers and equipping them with Workfabric AI’s ContextFabric platform, we’re serving to our shoppers transfer past experimentation towards scalable AI adoption,” stated Kumar, who has been named within the TIME100 AI 2025 record, which recognises 100 most influential folks shaping the way forward for AI.
The TIME 100 AI record highlights probably the most influential leaders, thinkers, scientists, and policymakers throughout varied fields shaping in the present day’s AI panorama.
In a launch on Thursday, Cognizant had stated that, beneath Kumar’s management, Cognizant pledged $1 billion in 2023 to speed up enterprise AI.
Kumar additionally just lately initiated the world’s largest vibe coding occasion amongst Cognizant workers to drive AI literacy in any respect ranges.
“The occasion led to a Guinness world information title for probably the most members in an internet generative AI hackathon. Greater than 30,000 prototype tasks had been produced by greater than 53,000 workers throughout 40 international locations who took half in harnessing AI to satisfy the rising alternatives the AI financial system will create,” the discharge stated.
Edited by Swetha Kannan
