The Artificial intelligence (AI) suite of technologies that include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image recognition, and natural language processing (NLP), to name a few, is undoubtedly transforming our individual lives and business models. The AI market in India, too, is showing a lot of promise. A joint study conducted by Microsoft and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) expects this market to grow 20% in the next five years with a major part of this growth being attributed to private companies, and industry bodies in this domain. While we acknowledge that the list is not exhaustive, we have compiled a list of a few such entities that have stood out in 2022. Founded in 2015, Staqu is a Gurugram-headquartered AI startup.

On a mission to move forward key technology milestones in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ARTPARK is closely working with various stakeholders to make the most of the technologies in education, healthcare, mobility, infrastructure, agriculture and various other sectors. Express Computer speaks to Umakant Soni, Founder and CEO, AI & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK).

ARTPARK is a unique not-for-profit foundation established by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private model. With seed funding of ₹170 crore ($22 million) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the National Mission on Inter-disciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), it will bring about collaborative consortium of partners from industry, academia and government bodies. This will lead to cutting edge innovations in terms of new technologies, standards, products, services and intellectual properties, the DST said. "Some of these facilities will be key enablers for whole new sets of technologies, products and services," it said. It will develop DataSetu which will enable confidentiality and privacy-preserving framework to share data and run analytics spurring the data-sharing ecosystem and create a data marketplace, boosting AI applications and solutions, the DST said.