Initiatives
Programs with their own front doors
ABAIA builds initiatives that can stand on their own — each with its own name, its own site where it needs one, and the association behind it. This page is the index.
Flagship — research
iidalabs.org
IIDA — Innovators & Industry Deeptech AI Alliance
A Focused Research Organization: a time-boxed, tightly-scoped research outfit that exists to produce specific outputs — papers, IP, products, exports — rather than to exist.
IIDA runs five research tracks spanning reasoning & game theory, world models, agentic UX, tokenomics and state AI policy. It works in the open: a public scoreboard where a zero is dated rather than hidden, a public problem bank where industry submits the problems worth solving, and courses that train forward-deployed engineers for India’s SMEs.
The membership is the same as ABAIA’s — one register, published on both sites.
Capital
ABAIA Angels
An angel network of operators
25+ investors — founders and seasoned startup backers — writing early cheques into enterprise AI startups building from India. Criteria are published, applications are open.
Knowledge
Sessions
The convening program
Talk shows, working sessions and workshops with practitioners — from differentiation for AI startups with Gokul Rajaram to selling AI into enterprises. Logged publicly as they happen.