Digital Divide Data (DDD) has established its wholly owned Global Capability Center (GCC) in Dehradun.
Focused on robotics, physical AI, and generative AI data services, the center is expected to grow to between 800 and 1,000 employees in the coming months, making it one of Uttarakhand’s largest concentrations of specialist AI roles.
Operational since August 1, 2026, the center has already onboarded 150 employees across three joining batches, reaching that scale in roughly six weeks. DDD said this pace reflects both the depth of graduate and technical talent available in the region and the company’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, with the Dehradun center supporting specialized 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 at Digital Divide Data, said India has become a critical center of gravity for enterprise AI, and that Dehradun represents an important investment in the company’s next chapter, expanding its ability to support clients building increasingly sophisticated AI products, including physical AI and robotics, while strengthening the technical and delivery capability of its global network. Bethuel Jabez, Vice President of Operations at Digital Divide Data, said the company chose Dehradun for its depth of talent and its potential to create meaningful technology careers for people in Uttarakhand, adding that with 150 colleagues already onboarded, DDD is building a center that combines rigorous training, high standards, and real opportunities for people to grow with the work.
The Dehradun center 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, capabilities that underpin the development and improvement of AI models across text, image, video, and other multimodal formats. Located at Doon IT Park, SIIDCUL, the center 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 center also extends DDD’s impact sourcing model into India, with hiring in Dehradun focused on fresh graduates and local candidates selected for aptitude and potential rather than prior experience, followed by structured induction and role-specific training before employees begin live production work.
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