Over the last couple of years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed from a technology with potential to a capability of national importance across the world. While AI has the potential to transform a wide range of sectors, adoption till date has been driven primarily from consumer sector. Over the last decade, the first demonstration of AI applications has happened in the consumer Internet space with breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition and Natural Language Processing.

The real power of AI, though, lies in its transformative potential to address massive societal challenges and provides a global leadership opportunity for India in creating human-centric, foundational technologies and digital infrastructure that reimagines implementation and delivery in 21st century.

INAI is an initiative to apply AI to population scale problems in the Indian context, combining research and translation. This collaborative effort, championed by Intel and catalyzed by the Government of Telangana, is anchored at IIIT Hyderabad and brings multiple relevant institutions together to work on important problems in the society.

PHFI is the founding healthcare partner. INAI will leverage the broader computing strengths of IIIT-H, the academic expertise in AI at the KCIS, the framework and activities of the TIH on Data Driven Technologies established at IIIT-H, technology/architecture strength of Intel, the public health expertise of PHFI, as well as expertise from other domain and technology players.