Rubrik AI Chief Sees India Emerging As Key Player In AI Era
Rubrik AI Chief Sees India Emerging As Key Player In AI Era
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Publish Date: 2026-06-10 02:43:00
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India has the potential to become a major force in the artificial intelligence era even without building the world’s most advanced AI models, according to Dev Rishi, General Manager for AI at cybersecurity company Rubrik, who believes the country’s strengths lie in its technology talent and ability to create practical AI applications.
Speaking to IANS ahead of Rubrik’s annual Forward conference in Las Vegas, Rishi said the global AI industry is still in the early stages of development despite the rapid attention the technology has received over the past few years.
“I actually think we’re in the very early innings of AI changing world,” Rishi said. “The first generation of AI were these LLM models that were mostly informational.”
According to Rishi, the next wave of AI will be driven by systems capable of performing tasks and taking actions within organizations rather than simply generating information.
“I generally think about that shift as a shift from like generative AI to adjunct AI,” he said. “That is the way that it’s going to start to actually lead to a lot of ROI inside organisations.”
Rubrik announced a range of AI-focused cyber resilience products at the conference, including tools designed to help companies recover more quickly from cyberattacks, securely govern AI agents, and integrate with Anthropic’s Claude AI ecosystem.
Rishi said the biggest obstacle to AI adoption among large enterprises is no longer the technology itself but concerns about governance, security and regulatory compliance.
“If you survey enterprise CIOs and CISOs, they’ll tell you that the number one blocker towards being able to adopt AI is governance and guardrails and compliance,” he said. “It’s actually not cost, it’s not orchestration, it’s not even quality.”
He argued that organizations will increasingly need AI-powered systems to monitor and secure other AI systems.
“In order to be able to use AI, you need…
