Nandan Nilekani Doles Out Second Grant To AI4Bharat

With this, Nilekani has pumped INR 70 Cr into the initiative

Nilekani first backed AI4Bharat in 2022 through his EkStep Foundation, which helped start the Nilekani Centre at IIT Madras

AI4Bharat creates models for speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech in Indian languages

Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani has committed a second multi-year grant to AI4Bharat, a language AI project at IIT Madras. The funds aim to expand the group’s work on building…