AI4Bharat
AI4Bharat is an IIT Madras research lab that develops datasets, tools and trained models for Indian languages. Its work includes language understanding, translation, speech and transliteration.
Company & leadership
- Origin
- The team's presentation dates the initiative's launch to July 2019.
- Institutional home
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India; listed by the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI.
- Research leadership
- Mitesh M. Khapra's current faculty biography says he heads the AI4Bharat Research Lab. This is an academic leadership role, not a company CEO title.
- Organization and support
- A research lab within IIT Madras. The Nilekani Centre was launched in July 2022 with philanthropic support from Rohini and Nandan Nilekani.
- Collaborators
- The lab's research credits students, volunteers and external researchers. Recent Indic models are jointly published with Bodhan AI.
Founding team
- The early project presentation identifies Mitesh M. Khapra, Pratyush Kumar and Anoop Kunchukuttan as the team behind the initiative.
