Fractal.ai said instead of building a general LLM, it will build a diffusion model called Kaleido (text to video)
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Fractal.ai, which has already built two AI models – Kalaido and Vaidya.ai – has submitted a proposal to IndiaAI Mission to build a grounds-up multimodal medical foundational model.
It said the model would help address the challenge of poor doctor-patient ratio – which stands at 1:1,500 – way higher than the ratio suggested by the World Health Organisation. The foundational model can address this critical gap, bringing specialised medical knowledge to regions where it’s most scarce.
“We have submitted a ₹150-crore proposal to the Mission, seeking a support of ₹127 crore for the compute part,” Srikanth Velamakanni, Founder and CEO of Fractal.ai, told businessline.
Domain-specific AI
“We have decided not to build a general large language model from scratch. It (building an LLM) is a very hard and there’s no point in fighting the 2023 battle in 2025. Instead of building a general LLM, we built a diffusion model called Kalaido (text to video),” he said.
The company submitted the proposal to the Mission recently.
“I believe that domain-specific AI, particularly in areas like healthcare, is a key way forward for India to gain a competitive advantage in the AI space. Our goal is to build the best healthcare model in the world,” he said.
“By creating indigenous AI models that combine reasoning and multimodal understanding, India can strategically address healthcare challenges and secure its technological sovereignty in a critical field,” he added.
Agentic AI
For the enterprises, the company is planning to build tailor-made solutions using Agentic AI (AI tools that can act independently to complete specific tasks). “It is our third track in their AI research, following the LLM and Reasoning tracks. It builds upon thinking and reasoning. We are targeting enterprises without Agentic AI tools,” he said.
To support their work in Agentic AI, the company has built a platform called Cogentiq, which facilitates the reimagining of organisational processes by enabling the use of a marketplace of specialised agents (for search, analysis, forecasting etc). These can be orchestrated by an overall agent to achieve tasks and provide final answers.
Published on April 23, 2025
