Scaler announced its Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Specialization and committed to train 10,000 FDEs over the next year, investing ₹25 crore in curriculum development, AI infrastructure, industry partnerships and learner support. The announcement follows a reported 729% year-on-year surge in global demand for Forward Deployed Engineers as enterprises move AI into production. Microsoft and AWS have announced $3.5 billion in combined investments toward enterprise AI deployment capabilities. According to MIT NANDA's The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, nearly 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact. Scaler's India AI Workforce Report 2026 found AI expanding beyond software engineering, while its Confidence-Capability Gap Report, conducted with CyberMedia Research (CMR), found that while 89% of engineers believe they are AI-ready, only 19% are actively building AI systems.