ireu.ai AI Centre of Excellence
Research · Product · Community — an initiative of Ireu Group

Where India builds
its most important
AI companies.

ireu.ai is the research, product, and community arm of Ireu Group — a focused AI Centre of Excellence building applied AI across PropTech, DeepTech, EdTech, FinTech, and MediaTech. Not a lab. A launchpad.

5 Industry Verticals 12+ AI Products in Build 200+ Researchers & Engineers 3 Annual AI Summits
Five Domains

Applied AI where Ireu operates.

ireu.ai builds, researches, and invests in AI companies across five verticals — not as a generalist lab, but as a domain-specific centre with deep operational context in each. Every AI product we build has a real customer at the other end.

01 / PropTech

AI in Real Estate

Computer vision, predictive pricing, and autonomous property intelligence for India's ₹65T real estate market.

  • AI-powered property valuation engines
  • Vision models for construction monitoring
  • NLP-driven lease & contract analysis
  • Predictive demand forecasting for developers
02 / DeepTech

AI for Hard Tech

Foundation-model research, edge AI deployment, and AI-hardware co-design in partnership with IISc faculty labs.

  • IISc-partnered foundation-model research
  • Edge AI for industrial IoT applications
  • AI-accelerated materials discovery
  • Autonomous systems & robotics intelligence
03 / EdTech

AI in Learning

Adaptive learning systems, AI tutors, and intelligent assessment engines built for India's 250M+ learners.

  • Personalised AI tutor with LLM backbone
  • Auto-grading & feedback generation
  • Dropout prediction & early intervention
  • Multilingual content generation (22 languages)
04 / FinTech

AI in Finance

Credit scoring, fraud detection, and AI-driven wealth intelligence for India's next 400M financial consumers.

  • Alternate-data credit underwriting models
  • Real-time transaction fraud detection
  • AI-powered investment research generation
  • Conversational banking & wealth advisory
05 / MediaTech

AI in Media

Generative media, AI journalism, content intelligence, and synthetic production tools for India's media economy.

  • AI-generated video & podcast production
  • Automated news summarisation & fact-check
  • Audience intelligence & personalisation
  • Synthetic dubbing for 22 Indian languages
ireu.ai research and engineering
What We Run

Ways to build with ireu.ai.

01 — Residency

AI Founder Residency

A 12-week intensive for AI-first founders — full access to ireu.ai infrastructure, GPU compute, IISc research mentors, and the cohort investor network. 5 companies per batch.

12 weeks5 startups / batchGPU accessInvestor demo day
02 — Fellowship

AI Research Fellowship

A 6-month fellowship for AI/ML engineers and researchers in our five domains — co-supervised by ireu.ai staff and IISc / IIT Madras faculty. Stipend-supported, output: published research or open-source tool.

6 monthsStipend supportedCo-supervisedPublication track
03 — Build

AI Product Studio

An in-house studio building AI tools, APIs, and SaaS products across our five verticals — partnering with domain companies, enterprise clients, and cohort startups as co-development partners.

Product studioEnterprise partnershipsRevenue-sharingOpen APIs
04 — Accelerator

AI-First Accelerator Track

The Launchpad's dedicated AI track — for startups that are AI-native, not AI-adjacent. Deeper compute, research mentorship, and a direct pipeline to ireu.ai tools, models, and enterprise introductions.

15-month programmeAI-native onlyLaunchpad trackEnterprise pipeline
05 — Education

AI Learning & Certification

A structured AI/ML curriculum for professionals and students — LLMs, production ML, AI ethics, and domain applications. Delivered with IISc CCE and Simplilearn, with certificates from ireu.ai + institutional partners.

IISc CCESimplilearnCertifiedOnline + offline
06 — Corporate

Enterprise AI Transformation

Advisory and implementation for GCCs, corporates, and large enterprises deploying AI at scale — research rigour with startup execution velocity, available to TOI, Big 4 partners, and the Ireu corporate network.

GCC advisoryAI implementationChange managementCustom models
Technology Infrastructure

The AI stack we build on.

ireu.ai's infrastructure is built on best-in-class open-source and proprietary AI tooling — the same stack we give to every resident, fellow, and cohort startup from Day 1.

  • Foundation Models — Claude (Anthropic), GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama 3, Mistral — a multi-model strategy for every use case
  • RAG & Search — Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant vector stores; hybrid search with BM25 + dense embeddings
  • ML Infra — MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC for experiment tracking; Kubeflow for production pipelines
  • Computer Vision — PyTorch, YOLO v9, SAM 2, Stable Diffusion XL, Runway, and proprietary vision models
  • Agents & Automation — LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen for multi-agent systems; MCP protocol for tool-use
  • Compute — NVIDIA A100 / H100 via AWS & Azure; Google Cloud TPUs for large-scale training
  • AI Safety & Eval — responsible-AI testing frameworks, red-teaming protocols, and bias/fairness auditing for all deployed models
  • Data Platforms — Databricks, dbt, Snowflake for data infrastructure; Label Studio and Scale AI for annotation
ireu.ai infrastructure and partners
Research & Build

What we're working on.

Active research projects, tools in development, and collaborations in progress. ireu.ai publishes openly wherever possible — because better AI in India's ecosystems benefits everyone.

Active Project · AI × PropTech

PropValue AI

A multimodal Automated Valuation Model that ingests satellite imagery, floor plans, transaction history, and neighbourhood signals to produce defensible property valuations. Built for NBFCs, REITs, and PropTech startups. Python · PyTorch · CLIP

Research Paper · AI × EdTech

Multilingual Adaptive Tutoring with Indic LLMs

Benchmarking Indic LLMs (IndicBERT, Airavata, OpenHathi) on K-12 adaptive-learning tasks across 8 Indian languages. Co-authored with IISc Department of Computational & Data Sciences. Preprint Q2 2026

Open Source · AI × FinTech

FinSight — Alternate-Data Credit Scoring API

An open-source Python library for alternate-data credit models using UPI history, mobile usage, and employment signals — for NBFCs serving thin-file borrowers in tier 2/3 India. Apache 2.0 · GitHub

Partnership · AI × DeepTech

IISc × ireu.ai — Edge AI for Industrial IoT

With IISc's Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems — lightweight vision and anomaly-detection models on edge hardware across 50 Karnataka manufacturing SMEs. IISc · DST-NIDHI Grant

Product · AI × MediaTech

NewsIntel

Real-time news summarisation, entity extraction, and automated fact-checking for Indian media — built with Times of India's editorial technology team as part of the Ireu Media collaboration. TOI Partnership · Beta

Active Project · AI × EdTech × FinTech

IreU-Agent

A production agentic AI system on Claude + MCP tooling — grant research, legal Q&A, loan-eligibility assessment, and government-scheme matching for Launchpad students. Claude API · Internal Beta

ireu.ai community and summit at IISc
Events & Community

Where the AI community meets.

ireu.ai runs Bangalore's most focused AI event series — from intimate research seminars to the Ireu AI & Startup Summit, India's largest AI-founder event.

  • Aug 14–15, 2026 · Flagship Summit — Ireu AI & Startup Summit 2026 · IISc Campus, Bengaluru · 6 themed days · TOI media partnership · Registrations Open
  • Jul 5, 2026 · Workshop — Building Production RAG Systems by ireu.ai · WeWork Manyata · 40 seats · engineers & PMs
  • Jun 28, 2026 · Research Seminar — Indic LLMs: State of Play with IISc CDS · IISc Faculty Hall · open to researchers and founders · Free RSVP
  • Jun 15, 2026 · Community Meetup — Bangalore AI Founders Dinner · ireu.ai × Launchpad · invite-only · 30 founders
  • May 22, 2026 · Demo Day — AI Product Demo Day · Residency Batch 1 · IISc Convention Centre · 12 products · investor audience
  • Apr 10, 2026 · Conference — India Deep Tech AI Conference · ireu.ai × IIT Madras · IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai · 500 attendees
Flagship · Ireu AI & Startup Summit 2026. India's largest AI-founder summit — 6 themed days across Global Academia, Student Founders, Luxury Real Estate, Corporate & GCC Strategy, Deep Tech & AI, and Women Who Build. At IISc, Bengaluru, in partnership with Times of India. Research & ecosystem partners include IISc, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, Anthropic, Google Cloud, AWS Activate, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA, Times of India, Simplilearn, KSUM, DPIIT Startup India, MeitY, DST NIDHI, NUS Enterprise, and Hub71 Abu Dhabi.
Apply

Build the future of AI with us.

Whether you're an AI founder, ML researcher, enterprise deploying AI, or a corporate partner — there's a track for you at ireu.ai.

AI Founder Residency

12 weeks. GPU compute. IISc mentors. 5 companies per batch. For AI-first founders at pre-seed.

Research Fellowship

6 months. Co-supervised by IISc / IIT faculty. Stipend-supported. For engineers and researchers.

Enterprise Partnership

Co-build AI products with ireu.ai's studio team. For GCCs, corporates, and media companies deploying AI.

Research Partner (Institutional)

University labs, international incubators, and government research bodies. MoU-based collaboration.

No commitment. We read every application and respond within 48 hours. ireu.ai — an initiative of Ireu Group · WeWork Mahogany, Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore — 560045.