Kompact AI to power the next wave of enterprise AI workloads

Bengaluru: Ziroh Labs, an AI and deeptech startup, has further pushed its limits on AI innovation extending the Kompact AI platform across different sectors and form factors, building the foundation for broader AI adoption.

Ziroh Labs’ CPU-first AI platform Kompact AI is designed for high-volume enterprise use cases where workload scale, I/O patterns and smaller AI models make efficient CPU-based inference a practical choice.

Hrishikesh Dewan, Co-founder and CEO of Ziroh Labs, said, “The next phase of AI adoption will require infrastructure that is accessible, efficient, and closer to the people and businesses using it. Our focus is to make AI more accessible by enabling organisations to run AI where it is needed, with greater control over cost, performance and data.”

The launch will also feature Dr. Whitfield Diffie, pioneering cryptographer and recipient of the 2015 ACM A M Turing Award. Dr. Diffie has expressed strong support for Kompact AI’s approach to AI infrastructure, particularly its ability to bring AI capabilities to ubiquitous CPU infrastructure. Ziroh Labs is working with academic institutions to establish Centres of Excellence (CoEs) focused on AI, giving students access to practical AI infrastructure and environments where they can experiment, build, and deploy AI applications. Kompact AI has the ability to make AI reachable to every educational centre, not just institutions with high budgets. Kompact AI provides a free academic license for every institution and its students.

These CoEs are intended to create a pipeline of developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who can work with real AI infrastructure, explore new use cases and contribute to India’s growing AI ecosystem.

The event also brought together prominent academic and industry voices, including Prof. S. Sadagopan, along with Sanjay Tyagi and Mahadesh, among other leaders from the technology and innovation ecosystem.

Prof. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director, IIIT-Bangalore said, “Sharing the stage with Turing award winner is such an honour. I congratulate Ziroh Labs for doing so much so soon…10+ partners, 100+ technical papers, 1,000+ models being released is incredible.

Kompact AI is creating a huge ecosystem for deep tech. Frugal innovation and building energy-efficient AI for everyone is what excites me about the platform which is a timely development for India.”