Meesho, IISc to conduct joint research in generative AI to drive ecommerce

Meesho is planning to foster developments and progress in domains including generative artificial intelligence (AI) and multimodal large language model (LLMs) for future expansions of the e-commerce sector. To achieve this the e-commerce marketplace has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) of one year with the Vision & AI Lab (VAL) of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as part of an industry-academia collaboration.

Under the MoU, Meesho’s data scientists will collaborate with lab researchers from the institute to focus on multimodal representation learning and generative AI capabilities.