18 TCS AI for Business Study TCS AI for Business Study – Technology Report Technology companies are the least likely to go it alone Q. On a scale of 1 to 5, how much are you relying on external vendor and partnerships (including academic or government partn ers ) for your AI implementations and how much are you doing in-house?; Q. Are you planning to create your own enterprise- specific LLMs for use in Generative AI implementations? As AI preparation turns to implementation, organizations face numerous decisions to achieve the right mix of artificial intelligence and investment. Technology companies are the least likely of any industry to rely on internal teams to develop and implement AI — and the industry’s Pacesetters are more likely to rely on external vendors and partnerships for such work than to handle it in-house. say they are relying solely or mostly on in-house talent to implement AI technology (compared to half of companies in other industries who say so) 37% plan to create their own enterprise-specific large language models (LLMs) for use in GenAI implementations 44% Only