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  • Immerso AI and Yotta announce strategic partnership for generative media

    Immerso AI and Yotta announce strategic partnership for generative media

    Mumbai: Immerso AI, part of the Eros Investments Group, a leading Generative AI company with intellectual property and licensed data, has announced their strategic partnership with Yotta at Vibrant Gujarat 2024. With this partnership, Immerso AI will leverage the Omniverse platform by NVIDIA and high-fidelity custom development to develop high-quality movie characters from the Eros Now library and Conversational AI and as Avatars and Characters for Gaming and other use cases. This development will leverage the NVIDIA-powered reference architecture with NVIDIA Infiband Networking infrastructure as being deployed by Yotta in Q1 2024. The companies will leverage the recent partnership announcement between the Govt. of Gujarat, GIFT City and Immerso AI Parks to engage local talent for research, development, and deployment.

    “India has the rich talent, vast scale, and deep pools of data to harness Generative AI to help solve the nation’s and the world’s greatest challenges,” said NVIDIA, South Asia MD Vishal Dhupar. “To help achieve this potential, NVIDIA is working with leading Indian businesses, as well as the larger ecosystem, to create cloud-based sovereign AI accelerated computing infrastructure.”

    Government of Gujarat principal secretary, IAS department at science and technology Mona Khandhar mentioned “Gujarat will play a pivotal role in the future of Deep Technology for Digital India and we are very pleased with this collaboration from leading companies like NVIDIA, Yotta and Immerso AI in the Generative AI space developing in Gujarat.

    Immerso AI CEO Ali Hussein mentioned “2024 is going to be the year of Generative Media, unlike other digital business infrastructure and performance will play a key role in generative Media and Gaming. Our core vision to develop India’s largest AIIP company is augmented with this partnership.”

    Yotta co-founder & CEO Sunil Gupta shared “Yotta is dedicated to harnessing AI’s power to transform various industries throughout India. Our collaboration with NVIDIA signifies a notable advancement in this endeavor, reinforcing our dedication to offering top-tier services to both existing and future clients. Through Immerso AI’s capabilities, we believe we can significantly enhance the M&E sector, greatly boosting our abilities in movie production and gaming development.

    As of May 2023, the Indian Generative AI landscape had more than 60 startups dedicated to offering solutions and services to their customers spread across various industry verticals. More than $590 million in funding has already flown into this space, with 2022 being the year with the heaviest funding inflow. 2024 will be a pivotal year in the development of the Generative AI eco-system in India and the native technology will cut across industry verticals.

  • ABAI: KAVGC 2013 Summit concludes in Bangalore

    ABAI: KAVGC 2013 Summit concludes in Bangalore

    BENGALURU: The Karnataka Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (KAVGC) Summit organised by the Association of Bangalore Animation Industry (ABAI), in collaboration with the government of Karnataka concluded on Thursday 29 August 2013, ending two days of power packed sessions by Indian and international experts from the industry and the Karnataka state government.

     

    The first session on day two: the Business session on Technology was moderated by NVIDIA Country Head Vishal Dhupar and had Arul Moorthy, NVIDIA – GPU in the VFX Workflow Senior Applied Engineer Wil Braithwaite; Autodesk-Mental Ray Lead Animation AE in APAC Prem Moraes; HP – Shared Infrastructure, National Business Development Manager for Cloud Solutions R Balasubramanian and Wipro Technologies CTO of Global Media and Communication Business Jayanta Dey as co-panellists.

     

    This was followed by a session on AVGC in a Globally Connected World moderated by The Children’s Media Foundation, UK Director Greg Childs. The session had representatives from different parts of the world speaking about the facilities that their territories had to offer to the Indian AVGC industry. This included Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Senior Trade Commissioners from Canada, France, UK and Quebec (Canada).

     

    The session on Original Content Development moderated by Liquid Comics Founder Suresh Seetharaman had Walt Disney Television International India ex Director Content and Creative Arnab Chaudhuri; Technicolor Animation and Gaming Art Director Manoj Menon and Novo Juris – “How not to lose it” Sharda Balaji as co-panellists.

     

    One of the most interesting sessions was the Show and Tell Session that had the audience’s undivided attention. Arnab Chaudhuri the director of the Indian animated action film ‘Arjun the Warrior Prince’ (AWP) spoke of the making of the film. Chaudhuri revealed the various real life characters on which every character in his film was based, details about the sets, as well as shared some of the raw footage and sketches that resulted in the final product. One of the best animated products out from India, AWP was produced by UTV motion pictures and Walt Disney Pictures, with Chaudhuri as Director Content and Creative at Walt Disney Television International India.

     

    The summit culminated with a session on Education moderated by Dreamworks Dedicated Unit at Technicolor India Studio Head Adi Shayan. The other panellists were Dr. Ashish Kulkarni (CEO Reliance Animation) in his capacity as Ficci AVGC Forum, Governing Council Member and Ficci-MESC Initiatives for Skill Development; Asian Institute of Gaming and Animation (AIGA) Founder Hanif Mohammed; Native Puppets – Artists Perspective Founder Anand Baid, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, College of Fine Arts Director Dr. R Kulkarni; The Painted Sky Art Based Learning Approaches Executive Coach, Founder and Director Anirban Bhatrtacharya.