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Wadhwani AI, an independent not-for-profit research institute with the mission of ‘AI for social good’.

Wadhwani AI is a non-profit research institute dedicated exclusively to applying AI for social good.

23/12/2025

📅 🌍 🤝 Save the Date: SahAI 2026
We’re excited to invite you to SahAI 2026, the official pre-summit dialogue leading up to the India-AI Impact Summit 2026.

Join leaders, subject experts and practitioners from across sectors for a thoughtful conversation. Together, we’ll explore how AI can strengthen public systems and expand last-mile access through real-world insights, shared learning, and collaboration.

🔗 Register via the link in bio

AI4Bharat WadhwaniAI

15/12/2025

Every child learns differently.
Some need a little more time⌚, some need a little more support 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿, and all of them deserve to be seen. 🙋🏾

📲👩🏾‍🏫Our ORF tool is:
🔸 Shaped by classrooms
🔸 Guided by teachers
🔸 Built to help young learners progress with confidence

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09/12/2025

India’s National Education Policy 2020 and NIPUN Bharat mission on Foundational Literacy & Numeracy paved the way. Wadhwani AI’s Oral Reading Fluency Application goes the distance.

Deployed in Rajasthan and Gujarat, this tool is simple to use, relevant and built for diverse learning environments, even in the remotest parts of the country.

The ORF solution:

📖 📱 Assists teachers and students from underserved communities with quick, linguistically friendly reading assessments

⚡Provides immediate access to useful data to support classroom learning

👧🏽👦🏾 Supports millions of children from underserved communities

⚖️ Ensures literacy education that is equitable, inclusive, accessible and impactful

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08/12/2025

“India’s growth story is supported by AI that speaks our language. 🇮🇳

At Wadhwani AI, we build last-mile AI solutions for agriculture🌿, education📚 and health services🩺.

Is this a one-person job? Far from it. Our work is a result of partnerships with frontline workers, educators, communities and government efforts. 👨🏾‍🎓👩🏾‍🎓

That’s how we create impact where it matters the most.
Because teamwork makes the dream work! 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿

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14/11/2025

On , we’re celebrating the potential of every child. But with student dropout rates in India surging to 12.6% in grades 9-12, that potential is at risk. How can we help educators spot the warning signs before it’s too late? We’re using Machine Learning to mimic the complex pattern recognition of an experienced teacher. Read the full story at the link in bio.

20/10/2025

We took a moment away from solving big problems to celebrate the festival of lights together. Wishing all our partners, colleagues and friends a safe, joyful, and Happy Diwali! 🪔

15/09/2025

inspires us to innovate with purpose. It’s not enough to deploy technology; we must deploy usable technology. Our job is to listen to frontline workers’ challenges and build tools that genuinely make their difficult jobs easier.

05/09/2025

For every word you correct, you build a sentence. For every sentence, you build a reader. For every reader, you build a future. Happy to the true architects of foundational learning.

15/08/2025

This , our gratitude is with the real builders of India. Those who till the soil, nurture our future, and guard our health. You are the heartbeat of the nation, and our work is dedicated to empowering yours.

Here’s to the next 78 years. Happy Independence Day. 🇮🇳

11/08/2025

Some big news! 🎉 We’ve joined forces with , and to bring AI skills to every corner of India through the AI Opportunity Fund!
Think practical AI for real people: the local artisan scaling their business, the farmer improving their yield, the student landing their first tech job. That’s the goal.
The progress so far has been incredible, and we couldn’t do this without our training partners on the ground. You’re making it all happen!

15/10/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the 2023 Llama Impact Grant by !

Our AI-driven Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) solution, which automates assessments to address students’ reading challenges, has already made a significant impact in Gujarat, thanks to our partnerships with the Government of Gujarat and .

Now, with Llama 3, we’re excited to expand across India, creating personalized, AI-driven learning experiences in multiple languages. We’re committed to scaling impact, empowering teachers, and helping students unlock their full potential with AI.

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Wadhwani AI came out of a discussion over coffee between Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani – brothers and philanthropists - about their philanthropic work in healthcare and entrepreneurship. They noticed that despite the explosive growth of AI in recent years, the only work being done on AI outside of consumer- or security-facing big tech, was by academic research institutions scattered around the world. Keeping this in mind, their main focus was to find a way to harness the power of AI to aid in sectors such as education, agriculture and healthcare.

Meanwhile, P Anandan had returned to India in 2005 to found Microsoft Research India (MSR India), with the goal of combining India’s world-class talent and growing interest in the world of social development with Microsoft Research’s focus on applying advanced technology to change lives. When approached by the Wadhwani brothers, Anandan saw an opportunity to take his work at MSR India to the next level, leveraging powerful AI technology to tackle problems that weren’t currently being successfully addressed.

The brothers thus founded the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI), and elected Anandan to head it, to create a hub that would connect the organizations working on India’s most pressing problems with the world’s most accomplished AI researchers, to engineer a revolution in how we approach and solve the most critical unmet needs of people everywhere.