India is uniquely-positioned to become the global hub for AI-native talent: Nasscom report
Nasscom recently launched “The State of AI-Native Talent in India: Decoding the Readiness of India’s Early-Career Technology Workforce,” introducing the Nasscom AI-Native Talent Index, a structured industry benchmark to assess AI-native capability. The inaugural edition focuses on early-career tech talent, defined as tech workforce with upto 3 years’ experience, including final year Computer Science (and related fields) engineering students
The study finds that nearly 70% of India’s early-career technology talent is AI-proficient, while around 23% qualifies as AI-native. This reflects strong functional adoption, with young professionals increasingly integrating AI into their work, learning and decision-making. At the same time, it highlights significant headroom to deepen India’s AI-native talent base by strengthening engineering judgment, AI orchestration skills and technical depth.
The index is based on a multidimensional framework that measures AI-native capability across eleven dimensions covering AI reliance, fluency, orchestration and creation, as well as AI judgment, cognitive independence, technical grounding,...
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