Hi, I’m Adithya AI researcher at Cognitivelab, a open source first research lab focused on building inclusive, high-impact AI for India and beyond. We recently received the LLaMA Impact Grant from Meta, becoming the only team from India to do so.

My open-source work spans across language models, document AI, and agentic systems. I created Omniparse, a powerful framework for converting unstructured data to structured formats, now with over 6,000 GitHub stars. I also led the development of Ambari, India’s first bilingual Kannada-English LLM.

One of my proudest contributions is the Nayana Initiative a long-term project to build a complete ecosystem of models, datasets, benchmarks, and tools for multilingual, multimodal, multitask AI, covering 22 Indic languages. This includes:

• NayanaOCR, a lightweight OCR model accepted at NAACL 2025 Workshops
• Nayana 1M, the largest multilingual document understanding dataset

I also run the AI Engineering Academy, where I teach applied AI concepts and share hands-on tutorials for developers and students.

If you're passionate about open, accessible AI especially for underrepresented languages your sponsorship helps me continue building these systems, supporting research, and mentoring the next generation of AI builders. Thank you for supporting my work.