Qure.ai is transforming routine medical imaging into early disease detection at unprecedented scale. Processing nearly 1,000 patients per hour across 105 countries, the startup has made preliminary radiology reports at India’s AIIMS and CMC Vellore AI-powered often flagging diseases physicians weren’t even looking for. In this conversation, Vikas Dandekar speaks with Prashant Warier Co-founder & CEO, Ankit Modi, Founding Member and Chief Product Officer and Preetham Putha, Founding Member and Chief AI Officer about how Qure.ai is reimagining diagnostics. Their breakthrough includes risk-scoring algorithms that detect high-risk lung nodules on standard chest X-rays, achieving a 54% CT-confirmed malignancy rate. From TB screening programs in Mumbai. where their tools uncovered 35% more cases for lung cancer detection in US hospitals, Qure.ai now holds 19 FDA clearances and WHO endorsement for autonomous AI diagnosis. Founded in 2016 and trained on over 1.5 billion anonymized images, Qure.ai has published clinical evidence in The Lancet and Nature. With current revenues of ₹200 crore, the company is targeting profitability within two years while scaling toward its ambition of impacting 1 billion lives by 2030.

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In this episode of ET@Davos, ET’s Sruthijith KK speaks to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Laureate 2024, on the future of AI. The chess prodigy-turned scientist-turned-AI pioneer explains how DeepMind balances frontier research with a billion-user scale. Hassabis says Google’s Apple partnership followed direct model comparisons where Gemini prevailed; China is now only months behind the West but lacks frontier breakthroughs; and AGI could arrive within a decade, triggering “post-scarcity” abundance. He defends AI’s energy demands, citing AI-designed fusion and grid optimisation. From Transformers to AlphaFold, Hassabis argues Google pioneered modern AI but moved too slowly. His bottom line: within 5–10 years, machines will be doing original science. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

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In this episode, ET's Executive Editor Sruthijith KK sits down with AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, for a critical conversation on India's tech future. Ng delivers a stark warning: the nation's massive IT services industry faces existential disruption. While dismissing AGI hype as overblown, he insists AI-powered upskilling isn't optional—it's survival. Ng challenges CEOs to personally master AI fundamentals, arguing that sophisticated tool usage now separates viable professionals from obsolete ones. For India, the path demands rapid workforce transformation and strategic open-source investment to maintain sovereignty. His message is clear: nations executing this transition will leapfrog competitors; those hesitating risk devastating displacement.

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