Organizations shaping AI

IIT Bombay

Indian Institute of Technology campus in Mumbai, one of India's leading engineering schools and a major source of AI and computer-science talent.

IIT Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, one of India's premier engineering schools.

IIT Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, a premier engineering and research institution.

IIT Madras

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, one of India's top engineering schools.

IIT Kharagpur

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is a public technical university and the first institution in the IIT system. Its AI department supports teaching and research across machine learning, language technology, computer vision, robotics and data science.

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, an Indian research university strong in computer vision and NLP.

BITS Pilani

BITS Pilani (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani) is a leading Indian private technical university founded in 1964 in Rajasthan, known for producing prominent engineers and computer scientists.

Research lab at IIT Madras working on developing open-source datasets, tools, models and applications for Indian languages.

Birla Institute of Technology Mesra (BIT Mesra) is a private deemed university located near Ranchi in Jharkhand, India, founded in 1955 by industrialist B.M. Birla, with programs in engineering, technology, and sciences.

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology trains engineers in Hyderabad and has dedicated departments for artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science. Its AI programs emphasize applied work across areas such as healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing and cybersecurity.

IIT Guwahati

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, a public technical university in Assam, India, founded in 1994.

Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI builds language and multimodal systems designed around India’s many languages, public digital infrastructure and government or enterprise needs. Its work matters as an attempt to create a full-stack, locally deployable alternative to English-first frontier models and foreign AI platforms.

Private university in Vellore, India (VIT), founded in 1984, known for engineering.

Public university specializing in engineering, technology, architecture, and applied sciences.

Bangalore University supports teaching and research across the sciences, engineering, humanities and professional disciplines, with postgraduate and doctoral programs based at its Jnana Bharathi campus.

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, a public technical and research university in Varanasi, India, founded in 1919 and made an IIT in 2012.

Public research and education institute in Kolkata, India (IISER Kolkata), founded in 2006 for the natural sciences.

Krutrim

Indian AI company founded by Bhavish Aggarwal (founder of Ola) and Krishnamurthy Venugopala Tenneti. Built multilingual large language models for Indian languages as India's first AI unicorn, later pivoting toward AI cloud services.

System of public technical and engineering institutes across India (the NITs).

Public technical institute in Warangal, India (NIT Warangal), one of India's National Institutes of Technology.

Indian ride-hailing company (ANI Technologies), founded in 2010, headquartered in Bengaluru.

Private university in Bengaluru, India (PES University), known for engineering.

Engineering college in Pune, India (PICT), affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University.

Engineering college in Bengaluru, India (RVCE), founded in 1963.