Bengaluru: Wipro Ltd will open a technology innovation centre in Mountain View, California, by the end of December as it seeks to build products on automation and artificial intelligence technologies in partnership with innovative start-ups nested in the Bay Area, thereby strengthening its offerings to clients when competing for large outsourcing orders.
Wipro’s new facility—the firm’s first outside its headquarters in Bengaluru—will have to compete with global software giants, including Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. for talent and partnerships with start-ups, and comes after local rival Infosys Ltd decided to shut its research and development wing and merge it with other business units within the company earlier this year.
