Publications
Decoding AI: What it takes to build a foundation model
JUNE 2025
This report summarises the takeaways from AIKC’s public forum ‘What it takes to build a Foundation Model’, held in New Delhi in April 2025. The panel featured Navendu A, head of business at Krutrim; Saurabh Kumar Karn, founding member of Sarvam AI; Subodh Sharma, associate professor at IIT Delhi; and Pankaj Thakar, founder and investor at Pad Up Ventures. The session was attended by 100 stakeholders from academia, industry, and civil society organisations, among others.
Assessing ‘Compute’ Capacities and Policy Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence in India
MAY 2025
This paper assesses the status of ‘compute’ capacities for artificial intelligence (AI) in India and discusses a few policy options that would incentivise the production and availability of these resources in India. The paper has been collaborated on by by members from Pahle India Foundation and XKDR
AI Knowledge Consortium’s Recommendations on the MeitY’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development
MARCH 2025
AIKC appreciates MeitY’s commitment to inclusive AI governance and welcomes the opportunity to have submitted comments on the AI Governance Guidelines Development report. These are a result of deliberations that took place during an AIKC workshop on the Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development convened on January 22, 2025. This representation does not represent the specific institutional position of any attending member organisation.
Crafting a Liability Regime for AI Systems in India
September 2024
This report has been co-authored by Meghna Bal (Esya Centre) and N S Nappinai (Cyber Saathi Foundation), and includes inputs received in the “Rethinking Liability Regimes in an AI World” workshop organised on May 15, 2024.moving forward.
Locating Equitable Compute for AI: Workshop Report and Research Agenda
April 2024
This workshop summary, compiled by the AIKC Secretariat serves a dual role; it acts as an archive of multi-stakeholder discussions hosted by the AIKC and also outlines key research questions for consideration by AIKC members moving forward.
What Indian Parliamentarians Think of AI?
March 2024
This report was published by IGPP (Institute for Governance, Policies and Politics) in association with AIKC (Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Consortium) and Wranga Social and Media Tech Pvt. Ltd.