Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 11 Sep: Digital Divide Data (DDD), a global social enterprise and provider of AI and data services, today announced the opening of its wholly owned Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Dehradun. Focused on robotics, physical AI and generative AI data services, the centre is expected to grow to between 800 and 1,000 employees in the coming months, creating one of Uttarakhand’s largest concentrations of specialist AI roles.
Operational since 1 August 2026, the centre has already onboarded 150 employees across three joining batches. Reaching that scale in roughly six weeks reflects both the depth of graduate and technical talent available in the region and DDD’s ability to build and train teams quickly for increasingly complex AI and data operations.
The facility is DDD’s first GCC in India and marks a significant expansion of its global AI delivery network. The Dehradun centre will support specialised work in physical AI and robotics, including the collection and annotation of egocentric video, sensor and multimodal datasets that help machine-learning systems understand and operate in real-world environments.
Steve Larson, Chief Operating Officer, Digital Divide Data, said, “India has become a critical centre of gravity for enterprise AI, and Dehradun is an important investment in DDD’s next chapter. It expands our ability to support clients building increasingly sophisticated AI products, including physical AI and robotics, while strengthening the technical and delivery capability of our global network.”
Bethuel Jabez, Vice President of Operations, Digital Divide Data, said, “We chose Dehradun because of its depth of talent and its potential to create meaningful technology careers for people in Uttarakhand. With 150 colleagues already onboarded, we are building a center that combines rigorous training, high standards, and real opportunities for people to grow with the work.”
The Dehradun centre supports DDD’s broader AI and data-services portfolio, including egocentric data collection, multimodal data annotation, data curation, LLM fine-tuning support, low-resource language services, AI model evaluation, and data preparation and validation. These capabilities underpin the development and improvement of AI models across text, image, video and other multimodal formats.
Located at Doon IT Park, SIIDCUL, the centre provides the enterprise-grade infrastructure, security and delivery environment required to support global engineering and technology teams with AI model training services from India.
The centre also extends DDD’s impact sourcing model into India. Hiring in Dehradun is focused on fresh graduates and local candidates: DDD selects for aptitude and potential rather than prior experience, then puts every recruit through structured induction and role-specific training before they begin live production work.
Founded in 2001, DDD has used this approach to help more than 15,000 people build careers across the United States, Cambodia, Kenya and Laos, with 95% of its workforce coming from economically and socially marginalised backgrounds. Dehradun brings that model to a state where high-end technology employment has historically been limited, giving graduates access to advanced AI work without relocating to a metro.
Recruitment for the centre is continuing across Uttarakhand.
Digital Divide Data (DDD) is a global social enterprise and a pioneer of impact sourcing, headquartered in New York with delivery locations across the United States, Cambodia, Kenya, Laos and India. Founded in 2001, DDD provides AI and data services — including multimodal annotation, data curation, model evaluation and fine-tuning support — to enterprises and technology companies worldwide.
