HCLTech joins Microsoft Discovery to accelerate agentic AI-led science

HCLTech has announced that it has joined the Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced agentic AI platform designed to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

As part of this collaboration, HCLTech will participate in deep technical onboarding sessions with Microsoft’s Discovery team to align platform architecture and partner collaboration models, and to explore joint go-to-market opportunities. Following onboarding, HCLTech will take part in projects aimed at accelerating solutions in areas such as chemistry and materials science, drug discovery, and semiconductor design, leveraging its strong domain expertise across industries.

Extending agentic AI from research labs to enterprise scale

Through the Discovery initiative, HCLTech joins a select group of research institutions and technology innovators shaping the next frontier of innovation.

The Microsoft Discovery platform enables R&D teams to conduct large-scale data processing and simulation, automate workflows, and accelerate scientific innovation to address some of the world’s most complex challenges. HCLTech’s participation will extend these capabilities to enterprise-scale applications through collaborative proofs of concept, co-innovation labs, and industry-focused implementations.

“HCLTech is a natural choice to help expand the Microsoft Discovery platform and advance the development of sustainable, innovative solutions,” said Aseem Datar, Corporate Vice President, Product Innovation, Microsoft Discovery and Quantum. “We look forward to building on our shared success and uncovering the next generation of transformative technologies together.”

“This selective collaboration reflects our ongoing commitment to advancing AI technologies in partnership with leading innovators,” said Hari Sadarahalli, Corporate Vice President, Engineering R&D Services at HCLTech. “By combining our deep domain expertise and cloud-based computing services with Microsoft’s enterprise-ready platform, we will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and deliver faster innovation across industries for our clients.”