Recently, IIT-Madras hosted the launch of the first version of KompactAI, a platform it co-produced with Ziroh Labs. This platform seeks to bridge the AI divide by enabling the creation of affordable applications.
This is possible because the products created by using the KompactAI platform can run AI without using advanced chips and consuming huge quantities of power.
Significantly, this innovation which democratises AI and showcased at IIT-Madras is not a one-off. Instead, it is part of a growing trend: One in which IITs are emerging as innovation hubs.
This begs the question: Is India building its own version of the academic-industrial complex—the ecosystem that fostered the Silicon Valley in the US?
To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras on Capital Calculus.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
