Wipro shares gain 2% after IT major expands Google Cloud AI partnership. What investors should know
The development came after Indian market hours on Thursday, while Wipro’s ADRs jumped 5% in pre-market trading in the US following the announcement
Wipro Google AI partnership
Under the expanded partnership, Wipro will deploy Gemini Enterprise internally and equip more than 10,000 AI-certified specialists, including 1,500 Forward Deployed Engineers, with advanced AI tools to improve productivity, operations and decision-making.
The partnership aims to help enterprises move beyond basic task automation towards secure, autonomous AI agents that can be embedded into core business workflows. As part of the initiative, Wipro has introduced the LIFT framework, short for Launch-Ignite-Flywheel-Transform, to help companies accelerate AI transformation and deploy agentic AI at scale.
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The framework will bring together Gemini Enterprise and Wipro’s AI-powered delivery platforms, WINGS and WEGA. Wipro said the combination will allow clients to apply AI to multi-step business processes rather than limit its use to simple automation tasks.
Kanwar Singh, Managing Partner and Global Head of Technology Services at Wipro, said AI is becoming central to how the company is shaping its future, transforming operations and delivering value to clients.Wipro is also creating a dedicated team of more than 1,500 certified Forward Deployed Engineers. The team will combine Google Cloud’s AI expertise with Wipro’s consulting and engineering capabilities to take AI projects from the pilot stage through to full enterprise deployment.
Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud, said the partnership is intended to help customers close the gap between AI’s potential and actual business performance.
Wipro has already deployed Gemini Enterprise as its central agentic orchestration platform under its “Operate Better with AI” strategy and “Client Zero” approach. The company said Gemini’s reasoning and long-context capabilities have enabled it to build autonomous AI agents across compliance, HR and sales intelligence, marking a shift from task automation towards an enterprise-wide decision intelligence layer.
The company has also integrated Antigravity Command Line Interface into its software engineering ecosystem. According to Wipro, this enables agentic workflows that support developers across planning, coding, testing and application modernisation.
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Wipro said the initiative has resulted in measurable gains in development productivity and a reduction in post-production defects.
Wipro Q1 results snapshot
The company reported a 1% year-on-year (YoY) increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 3,352 crore in the June quarter, compared with Rs 3,330 crore in the year-ago period. Revenue from operations rose 11% YoY to Rs 24,479 crore from Rs 22,135 crore in the same quarter last year.
The company maintained a cautious outlook for the September quarter, guiding for IT services revenue to range from a 1.5% decline to a 0.5% increase in constant currency terms. Wipro expects IT services revenue to be between $2.574 billion and $2.627 billion, implying sequential constant-currency growth of -1.5% to +0.5%.
Wipro shares are down 35% since the beginning of the year.
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