Ayurveda institute's incubator opens a national open artificial intelligence challenge with IIT Bombay's Techfest

29 October 2026

The incubator run by the All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi, known as AIIA-iCAINE, marked its sixth foundation day by opening a national competition on artificial intelligence for Ayurveda.
The contest is called AyushTech Innovate: National Open Ayurveda AI Challenge and is run with Techfest of IIT Bombay.
Entries are to be built on AyurParam, an open source language model for Ayurveda developed at IIT Bombay, and may cover clinical practice, retrieval from classical texts, research, treatment planning and public health awareness.
The grand finale is set for 15 to 18 December 2026 at IIT Bombay.
Two agreements were signed the same day, one with the World Ayurveda Foundation to set up a secretariat for artificial intelligence in Ayurveda, and one with a retail company to turn classical formulations into skincare products.
The incubator also opened a facility to help Ayurveda innovators with intellectual property rights.
In six years it has supported 52 problem statements, mentored more than 100 startup ideas and given nine startups seed support of three lakh rupees each.