Overview
- IIM Ahmedabad exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding to establish the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence on its campus.
- Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, an IIMA alumna and Grammy-winning musician, and Ranjan Tandon committed ₹100 crore to fund the new school.
- The MoU exchange occurred virtually in the presence of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi and Ambassador Vinay Kwatra in the United States.
- IIMA says the school will prioritize responsible, application-led work that converts cutting-edge AI research into tools, frameworks, and scalable systems for industry, government, and society.
- Officials tied the initiative to the India—AI Impact Summit 2026 and framed it as strengthening national AI capacity at the intersection of technology, management, and public impact.