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TIME Names IIT Madras’s Mitesh Khapra to 2025 List of 100 Most Influential in AI

He is cited for AI4Bharat’s open-source language resources that underpin Indian-language AI, including the government’s Bhashini mission.

Mitesh Khapra, an IIT Madras professor, has been named on TIME's list of most influential in AI.
IIT Madras professor Mitesh Khapra joins Elon Musk, Sam Altman on TIME's 100 most influential in AI

Overview

  • Khapra joins TIME’s 2025 roster alongside global figures such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
  • The IIT Madras associate professor co-founded AI4Bharat in 2019 to build open-source datasets and tools for India’s languages, collecting speech data from hundreds of districts.
  • AI4Bharat’s corpora and models now supply most of the data used by the government’s Bhashini program to enable digital services in local languages.
  • TIME’s profile credits his NLP and machine-learning work with reshaping India’s academic AI ecosystem and refocusing research on Indian-language problems.
  • AI4Bharat outputs are already in use nationwide, from translating Supreme Court documents to a farmer voice bot, and peers including a senior Google scientist publicly hailed the recognition.