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    • Google expands AI computing capacity in India in partnership with IIT Madras on Indic language benchmarking platform

      Indic Arena, run independently by the AI4Bharat research centre at IIT Madras, will allow users to anonymously evaluate and rank AI models based on how they perform across Indian languages and culturally specific tasks.

    • Entrepreneurial mindset the missing piece in taking deep tech from lab to market, says IIT Madras

      Deep tech ventures in India face two major gaps - proving that the technology works outside the lab, and then scaling it into a viable business.

    • Indus Towers partners with IIT Madras for research in advanced materials

      This collaboration marks the first-of-its-kind industry-academia initiative to explore the structural, economic, and environmental advantages of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) applications, it said.

    • Operation Sindoor achieved its objectives, prolonging conflict would have hurt economy: Experts

      The objective was not to throw India into a long-drawn war, Lt Gen Shankar Prasad (retd) has been quoted as saying.

    • IITian CEO quit Microsoft for health, spends Rs 3.5 lakh on Bengaluru breathing workshops

      Sudheer Koneru said he finds the breathing exercises 'amazingly healing and just so powerful'. Each workshop hosted in Bengaluru costs between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 1.6 lakh.

    • Sabeer Bhatia is shocked by IIT Madras director’s 'anti-bacterial' cow urine claims: 'If educated...'

      IIT Madras director V Kamakoti had made the claims at an event in Chennai on January 15. On January 20, he asserted that five scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals validated cow urine's anti-infective properties, including antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory effects.

    • Future Martian homes? A team from IIT-Madras creates waterless concrete for construction on Mars

      IIT Madras' ExTeM team pioneers solutions for space colonization, developing waterless concrete for Martian construction, and driving innovations for sustainable human life beyond Earth.

    • IIT-Madras’ IRIS space chip for ISRO developed at fraction of commercial cost: Director V Kamakoti

      The chip is being seen a big leap forward for India's indigenous semiconductor capabilities and a boost for its space ambitions

    • IIT Madras launches first-of-its-kind cancer genome database

      IIT Madras in collaboration with Karkinos Healthcare, Mumbai, the Chennai Breast Clinic and Cancer Research and Relief Trust, Chennai analysed the data and assembled the anonymised summary of genetic variants from Indian breast cancer samples.

    • IIT Madras admits 5 athletes under sports quota for the first time in history. Internet is divided

      IIT Madras director V Kamakoti said, 'Sports Excellence Admission is an initiative of IIT Madras primarily to send the important message that children must be encouraged to play. I sincerely hope this reaches everyone.'

    • 'Not some superstitious quackery': Zoho CEO backs IIT Madras director on cow urine row

      Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu defended IIT Madras director Prof V Kamakoti, who faced criticism for highlighting cow urine's medicinal properties.

    • IIT-Madras open sources largest 3D brain image repository using Nvidia processors

      The research findings have been accepted for publication as a special issue for the century-old peer-reviewed neuroscience journal, Journal of Comparative Neurology.

    • Hindustan Zinc ties up with IIT Madras to develop advanced zinc-air battery tech

      Zinc-air batteries offer a cost-effective, rechargeable and durable alternative to expensive and imported lithium-ion batteries.

    • Flying taxi startup ePlane Company to begin manned trials by April 2025, in process to secure key DGCA, EU certifications

      The IIT Madras-incubated startup has applied for a vertical take-off and landing capable aircraft type certification from the DGCA and propeller certification from EU's European Air Safety Agency

    • Hyundai Motor India to establish Hydrogen Innovation Centre at IIT-Madras

      The investment of Rs 180 crore has been earmarked towards the development and construction of the facility.

    • Natural minerals are broken by water droplets to form nanoparticles, IIT Madras researchers find

      This is the first research paper from IIT Madras to be published in the ‘Science’ journal, the institute said in a statement.

    • Anand Mahindra attributes India's innovation surge to IIT Madras and ambitious incubators

      Highlighting the pivotal role of IIT Madras as one of the world's foremost incubators, Mahindra underscored India's emergence as a hub for genuine innovators.

    • IIT-Madras raises all-time high funding of Rs 513 crore from alumni, others in FY24

      It is a 135 percent increase from the amount raised in the previous financial year of 2022-23 at Rs 218 crore.

    • IIT Madras-backed startup launches India's first indigenously designed microcontroller chip

      Mindgrove Technologies launched India’s first commercial high-performance SoC (system on chip) named Secure IoT

    • Perplexity AI's Aravind Srinivas meets Nandan Nilekani, recalls story from IIT Madras days

      Perplexity AI co-founder Aravind Srinivas shared a photo of a meet-up with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and recalled how the latter was a commencement speaker when he graduated from IIT Madras, a few years ago.

    • IIT-Madras refutes claims of no jobs for almost half of 2024 batch

      Recently, there have been multiple reports of students of the premier engineering colleges across the country struggling to secure job offers

    • IIT Madras study finds surge in C-section deliveries during 2016-21

      A caesarean section (C-section) delivery is a surgical technique that involves making an incision in the mother's belly to deliver one or more infants.

    • IIT Madras Pravartak partners with VyVoxel International to launch AR/VR programming course

      The course is offered in online mode and has a duration of 60 hours. The last date to apply for the First Batch is March 31, 2024.

    • Walmart launches centre for tech excellence at IIT Madras

      The centre will work towards developing cutting-edge solutions that will help MSMEs adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with digitization to drive operational efficiency and profitability, IIT Madras said in a statement.

    • IIT Madras, THSTI researchers develop India-specific AI model for foetus age 

      The initiative was taken as part of the ‘Interdisciplinary Group for Advanced Research on Birth Outcomes – DBT India Initiative’ (GARBH-Ini) program.

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