Whereas there is always some doubt around the lists created by this organization or, the list of the best 100 is still taken seriously by Time magazine. And characterized by characteristic, and more when there are names like Elon Musk and Sam Altman, then there is a belief that is not easy to come. On this occasion, this recognition came to Professor Mitesh Khapra of IIT Madras as he is painted in the list of 100 most influential people in AI. The list of time, which also has a brief profile of people depicted, honors Khapra as a person whose work and research re -connects the “educational research of their country in AI”.

So, who is the Profra and what is the claim of his fame? Well, unlike many others in the list of time, Khapra does not run an AI company. But his work is apparently so impressive that it has not only influenced and inspired countless IIT-Indians, which are now working in top AI companies in the world, but it also acts as a basis for almost all AI work done in Indian languages.

Man behind AI4Bharat

Khapra, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in IIT Madras, has been recognized in time for its research in natural language processing and machine learning. He co-established AI4Bharat, an initiative that creates open-source tools and datasets to make AI accessible to Indian languages. According to Time.com, his work has helped to bridge the gap between state -of -the -art technology and everyday use, especially for those in India who speak and work in local languages.

The project has collected speech data from hundreds of districts across the country, making them produce resources that allow the AI ​​system to perform better in local languages. The effort has helped reduce India’s dependence on the English-centered AI model and has created opportunities for students and researchers to work on relevant problems for India.

Established in 2019, AI4Bharat has also become an important contributor to the government’s Bhashini Mission, which wants to provide digital services in Indian languages ​​using AI. The organization has reportedly supplied most of the data power Bhashini. Khapra has said that even though global technical companies adopt these datasets to strengthen their models in languages ​​like Hindi or Marathi, the results will eventually benefit the country.

Since the announcement, social media has been associated with congratulatory messages to Professor Khapra. A senior research scientist at Google wrote on the X (East Twitter): “Wow! Professor Mitesh Khapra’s name is in the same list in Times 100/AI, such as Fi-Fi Lee, @Sama, @Lonmusk, @jfdean and so on. I bless the day I was invited to work with him. Many others joined it, called it “goat”, which is a brief name for “the greatest” of all time.

The Times 100 AI list is seen as one of the most reputed beliefs in the technical world, characterized by researchers, entrepreneurs and policy makers who are running the AI ​​revolution. This year’s list, which was released a few days ago, includes Mitesh Khapra along with other big officials like Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodi, Redit CEO Steve Hafman and Deepsek CEO Liang Wenfeng.