Genesis of Bhashini: India’s First AI Mission
Prof Rajeev Sangal, founding Chair of Mission Bhashini’s Executive Committee, offers a rare behind-the-scenes account of India’s ambitious speech-to-speech translation mission—its visionary strategy, ethical dilemmas, and roadmap to global leadership in domain-specific AI. “At Bhashini’s inception in 2018–19, many doubted
From IIITH to Adalat AI: building India’s justic...
Arghya Bhattacharya was 26 years old when he co-founded Adalat AI, the first of its kind LLM platform to revolutionize the Indian judicial system. Having scaled up efficiency in 20% of India’s court system, they plan to touch 50% by
Die Hard, Game theory and the fascinating AI drive...
Manish Jain’s Ph.D in game-theoretic research on large-scale optimization in adversarial settings was first successfully deployed in LAX and used by air marshals at TSA, resulting in a slew of awards and commendations. The former startup founder, now at Google
IIITH sets Benchmark in Inclusive Process for Dire...
Academic institutes aspire for transparency in governance of their leadership but having lucid, and active participation of all relevant stakeholders in the selection of the said leadership itself is probably a first. At a formal event held at IIITH on
Technology In Films: A Look Through The Ages
Prof. PJ Narayanan walks us through the technological developments that have taken place over the last few decades in the movie making process while giving us a glimpse of what is yet to come. We’ve witnessed a digital transformation in
IIITH-TCS Research On Interactive Embodied Agents ...
Here’s a brief summary of recent research undertaken jointly by TCS Research and IIITH in the Embodied AI space. Autonomous vehicles, drones and humanoid robots may once have been confined to the science-fiction realm but today they are a reality.