AI Special 2025
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Ganesh Ramakrishnan's BharatGen Vision: Inclusive, diverse, self-reliant
As the principal investigator of BharatGen—a government-backed effort, led by a consortium of top Indian institutions, to develop multilingual and multimodal generative AI models for India—Ramakrishnan champions accessibility and inclusion in AI
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IIT Madras' B Ravindran: Championing AI that is not only powerful, but also responsible
The head of Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, IIT Madras, has pioneered research in reinforcement learning, shaping national AI policies to create powerful and responsible AI
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Ashish Vaswani's Essential AI wants to use powerful AI to solve humanity's biggest challenges
Essential AI's open science frontier model uses a research approach that focusses on sharing and openness in all stages of the scientific process
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How Arvind Jain's Glean is creating a ChatGPT for enterprises
The Palo Alto-based company's generative AI scans through large swathes of organisational data and offers document summaries and data extractions to work more efficiently and effectively
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Aravind Srinivas' Perplexity AI is changing the way we search for information online
Perplexity AI is giving the biggies a run for their money by rewriting the playbook of online search queries with an innovative AI-powered search engine
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Amitabh Nag: Breaking Indian language barriers in AI
As the CEO of Bhashini, Nag is helping build the government's platform to make digital content and services more accessible across India's diverse languages
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How seasoned IAS officer Abhishek Singh is leading India's AI mission
A 1995-batch IAS officer with over two decades of experience, Singh has learnt the ins and outs of governance. Now, he is leading India's AI mission with a focus on foundational models, applications to leapfrog global competitors
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AI unlocks new avenues for creativity, strategy, leadership: Salesforce's Srini Tallapragada
In a rapidly emerging agentic landscape, developers sit at the centre of transformation, and while AI raises valid questions about the future of their work, it isn't completely replacing developers. Rather, it's redefining their role and unlocking new opportunities, the president and chief engineering officer of Salesforce writes
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India is evolving from an AI adopter to AI leader. Here's how
With a focus on sovereign AI, foundational models, and practical applications, Indian companies deploying AI in their products and solutions attracted more than $1 billion in venture capital funding, a 50 percent increase over the previous year