Practical AI · Thursday, September 3, 2026
Chaiten Gupta attributes his career advancement at Hitachi to the company's early and risky investment in industrial AI. This strategic focus on a nascent field, including establishing a research lab in the Bay Area, demonstrated foresight and confidence in internal talent to drive innovation.
“Um, I think one thing that helped in my career at Hitachi was, um, we decided to take a bit on industrial AI. This was 2016, 2017. And not very many people were taking talking about it.”
“We were competing with like the likes of Facebook, Google for top talent. Um, but we took that risk. We were sort of forward looking in the sense that we figured that industrial AI, physical AI will become important.”
“And I think that sort of paves the way in some sense for management, for our leadership, um, from the CEO downwards to have confidence in internal sort of talent to take Hitachi to the next level.”