From 70,000 Telugu articles on Wikipedia about three years ago, researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH), have now managed to create a Wikipedia Sandbox with over a million articles in Telugu, ranging from movies to cricket to stars and planets. As part of the Project IndicWiki, the team at IIIT-H also added 2 lakh new Hindi articles to the existing count of 1.5 lakh. The team used LLM and Gen AI for this project, which has been underway since 2021. It is now hoping that Volunteers will come forward to upload it to Wikipedia.

IIITH has launched an online course on ‘AI for Medical Professionals’, in collaboration with National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, and IHub-Data. The 12-week online orientation course on AI for Medical Professionals will equip medical professionals with the requisite skills needed to understand, evaluate, and apply AI technologies in clinical settings, improving patient care and operational efficiency. It covers both theory and tutorials covering the basics of AI, machine learning, deep learning etc.

The National Blockchain Framework (NBF) is designed to promote research, application development, and secure digital service delivery. The technology stack, hosted across NIC data centers in Bhubaneswar, Pune, and Hyderabad, features distributed infrastructure, core framework functionality, smart contracts, API gateway, and enhanced security and privacy measures. The NBF initiative is a collaborative effort involving C-DAC, NIC, IDRBT Hyderabad, IIT Hyderabad, IIIT Hyderabad, and SETS Chennai, aimed at addressing challenges related to blockchain research, security, and interoperability. The initiative has already generated several patents and research publications.