AI Special 2025
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Google DeepMind's Manish Gupta on building AI that can benefit everyone
Gupta is leading efforts to build inclusive and efficient AI that understands India's linguistic diversity and works seamlessly on mobile devices
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BrainSightAI's Laina Emmanuel and Rhimjhim Agrawal: Mapping the mind and matter
The software-as-a-medical-device company has developed a software product that could evolve into a holistic diagnostic tool for the brain and its functions
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Microsoft India's Kalika Bali: Building AI to empower India's underserved communities
At Microsoft Research India, Kalika Bali has been building inclusive, multilingual and culturally contextual AI systems that empower the most vulnerable in India
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AI futurist Harrick Vin foresees a world in which humans and AI help each other
As a champion of human-centric AI, TCS CTO Vin believes AI will drive hard design and cultural overhauls in organisations
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Geetha Manjunath: Championing early detection of breast cancer
Niramai's flagship product, Thermalytix, combines the power of artificial intelligence and thermal imaging for early detection of breast cancer, underlining Manjunath's belief that no one needs to die of breast cancer as long as it is detected early
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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