India, April 10 -- Indian startup Ziroh Labs, in collaboration with researchers at IIT Madras, has designed an affordable system that it says can run large artificial intelligence (AI) models without requiring advanced computing chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp.

According to a report by Bloomberg, the company's framework is called Kompact AI and was developed in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Ziroh Labs has claimed that the platform enables AI to run on the central processing units (CPUs) found in everyday computing devices as opposed to the coveted, and costly, graphics processing units (GPUs) that have been the linchpin of the artificial intelligence boom.

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