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.
