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…