IBM Expands AI and Quantum Research With IIT Bombay and IISc

Insider Brief

• IBM is expanding research collaborations with IIT Bombay and IISc covering agentic AI, sovereign AI, multimodal systems, AI infrastructure and quantum computing.
• The IIT Bombay collaboration will focus on Indic language models, multimodal AI, software programming education, knowledge retrieval and AI infrastructure.
• The IISc collaboration will cover agentic systems, energy-focused AI models and quantum-HPC algorithms for scientific and industry applications.

PRESS RELEASE — IBM today announced expansions of two long-standing research collaborations in India: one with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and another with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to accelerate innovation in agentic AI, sovereign AI, quantum computing and next-generation computing systems.

Building on a collaboration that began with IIT Bombay in 2018, IBM researchers will continue to work alongside faculty and students to explore sovereign and Indic language model adaption, multimodal AI, as well as AI infrastructure and knowledge retrieval. With IISc, IBM researchers will continue a collaboration that began in 2021, which covers agentic systems, AI for applications, and quantum computing algorithm development.