Mandi (HP), March 24 -- IIT Mandi along with its Technology Innovation Hub, is all set to host HIVE 3.0, at the IIT Mandi campus, focusing on the evolution of human-centred AI and collaborative intelligence with the significance of the research in multimodal AI.

The international conclave is from March 30 to April 1, 2026, bringing together over 50 attendees, 100 startups, 100 exhibits, and 50 speakers, according to a spokesman of the IIT Mandi.

As HIVE 3.0 enters its third year, this edition will showcase how AI is moving beyond text-based systems to process a combination of inputs such as speech, vision, gestures, and sensor data with a focus on Multimodal AI.

For decades, however, most AI systems have been designed to process these si...