Spearheaded by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the initiative aims to create generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text and multimodal (speech and computer vision) content in various Indian languages. The implementation of the project is by the TIH Foundation for IOT and IOE at IIT Bombay with academic partners from other academic Institutes that include IIT Bombay, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore, and IIT Madras.

When IIITH’s Sushil Raaja Umasudhan won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024) at Alexandria recently, it was his third international medal. He won the silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI-2024), held at Alexandria, Egypt in September this year. He and his team had earlier won the bronze at Hungary’s IOI-2023 and Gold medal in this year’s Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO-2024), an online competition hosted by China in which 35 countries from the Asia Pacific region participated.

IIITH’s Social Incubator, AIC-IIITH, held a roundtable discussion on ‘Financial and Non-Financial Support for Startup Innovation in Climate Action’ at IIITH. This collaborative event brought together key stakeholders to discuss challenges and solutions for supporting climate-tech startups through financial mechanisms, policy enhancements, and ecosystem collaboration. Participants in the Roundtable included Gareth Wynn Owen, British Deputy High Commissioner to Hyderabad, and representatives from RICH and IIITH.