Indian AI Research Organistation
India's Engine for
Sovereign AI Leadership
IAIRO unites world-class researchers, engineers, and industry partners to build India’s frontier AI capabilities.
IAIRO is India’s own engine where deep research turns into real-world impact. Designed as an ecosystem from day one, we build both the talent and the technology needed for true sovereign AI.
India is at a pivotal moment in its technology journey. After building the world’s digital backbone, our next frontier is leadership in AI. To make Bharat truly Atma Nirbhar in frontier technologies, we must strengthen research, deepen innovation, and train world-class talent.
Answering the Prime Minister’s call to nation-build, I have returned to India after 44 years in the United States, having trained over 55 PhDs and postdocs and built multiple global technology ventures to contribute to this mission.
Together with an exceptional team of researchers, technologists, and entrepreneurs, we aim to position India as a global hub for responsible, frugal, and cutting-edge AI innovation, and help transform our country into a true product nation.
Partners can engage with IAIRO through talent, technology, or ecosystem collaboration.
Talent
Our AI scientists and Advisors guide partners on model design, data strategy, and responsible deployment.
Platform & Products
Our applied AI teams co-build scalable systems, license IAIRO IP, and run innovation labs that convert research into deployable pilots.
Network
We connect innovators and entrepreneurs to aligned angels, VCs, corporates, and government programs, and support incubation, funding, and strategic partnerships.
The founding team brings together researchers and educators from leading universities, entrepreneurs who have built successful AI startups, and technologists from Amazon, Meta, Apple, Netflix, and Snap, along with a VC fund founder. They bridge deep tech, business strategy, and global innovation networks - building IAIRO as an ecosystem by design.
IAIRO’s PPP model is sponsored by IndiaAI mission, MeitY, Gujarat DST, and the Indian Pharma Association (inaugural members, will be expanded subsequently).
200+
AI Innovators to be trained
50+
Patents, IP assets, and pre-commercial breakthroughs
30+
Sectoral pilots such as in Pharma, Climate, Energy, Education, and Health in collaboration with government, industry, and academia.
20+
Deep-tech startups to be incubated, supported, or spun out of IAIRO
10,000+
Students to enter India’s AI pipeline through IAIRO programs