IIT Bombay, IISc collaborate with IBM for advance AI, quantum computing research opportunities

In a move to advance cutting-edge research, IIT Bombay, IISc, and IBM have joined forces to explore agentic AI, sovereign AI, quantum computing, and next-generation computing systems. This collaboration, which began in 2018 with IIT Bombay, will provide faculty and students with the opportunity to delve into areas such as sovereign and Indic language model adaptation, multimodal AI, AI infrastructure, and knowledge retrieval.

The partnership aims to strengthen multilingual AI capabilities, particularly for Indian languages, by developing efficient model adaptation and optimization tools. Additionally, the collaboration will focus on creating multimodal AI systems to enhance software programming education, human-AI collaboration, and intelligent operations in hybrid cloud environments.

Building upon their 2021 collaboration, IISc and IBM researchers will now explore agentic systems, AI applications, and quantum computing algorithm development. The joint efforts aim to develop agentic AI workflows that will improve orchestration across hybrid cloud environments. Furthermore, the collaboration will involve the creation of lightweight time-series foundation models based on the IBM Granite model family, which will support energy analytics for forecasting, anomaly detection, load disaggregation, and energy optimization.

Since their collaboration commenced, IIT Bombay, IISc, and IBM have been working to advance research in artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, distributed systems, and quantum computing. By continuing these interdisciplinary efforts, the institutes hope to encourage the next generation of scientific talent and facilitate innovations that will shape the future of computing.