We build indigenous AI from scratch — custom architecture, custom training, no foreign model DNA. The same intelligence that powers a commercial AI assistant powers the defence systems that protect a nation.
Scroll to exploreEvery major "Indian AI" product today is built on foreign foundations — Llama weights, GPT architecture, American training pipelines. VKD Industries builds differently. Our neural network architecture, tokenizer, and training pipeline are entirely our own. That is not a detail. That is the moat.
Custom transformer design with GQA, RoPE, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, and Flash Attention. Custom BPE tokenizer with 32,000 vocabulary. Every layer, every weight, every decision — ours.
The same architecture that powers KAEL — our commercial AI assistant — powers VKIND, the AI brain behind our defence systems. One engineering investment. Two strategic markets. Permanent leverage.
No foreign weights means no foreign dependencies. KAEL can be deployed in classified environments, government infrastructure, and defence systems where foreign AI is not an option.
KAEL is a general-purpose AI assistant — coding, reasoning, mathematics, research, problem solving. It runs locally on your hardware, keeps your data private, and thinks through problems step by step before answering.
KAEL 500M is our proof-of-concept — already trained and validated, beating GPT-2 1.5B on math benchmarks with 3× fewer parameters. KAEL 7B is the product we are building towards — the public launch model with full conversation, Hindi, and enterprise capability.
VKIND is VKD's defence intelligence platform — the AI brain behind every VKD weapons system. It classifies targets, optimises guidance parameters, detects electronic warfare, adapts to atmospheric conditions, and coordinates multiple systems simultaneously.
VKIND never stops learning. Every simulation run, every real engagement makes it smarter than the last. Large models think on ground systems. Distilled sub-5M parameter models act on flight computers in under 5ms.
VKD Industries is developing an indigenous surface-to-air interceptor — our first defence programme and the first real-world deployment of VKIND. The system incorporates a terminal seeker configuration that no operational surface-to-air missile in the world currently has.
We are not building a copy of existing systems. We are building a capability that does not yet exist — and doing it in India, for India, on India's timeline.
VKIND is the intelligence layer that makes this possible. Every simulation, every flight, every engagement teaches it something the next missile will know from birth. The weapon gets smarter. Every single time.
India's three largest defence suppliers — Russia, Israel, and the United States — are simultaneously involved in active conflicts. Strategic dependency is no longer a theoretical risk. It is the present reality.
At the same time, India's AI ecosystem is growing at 58% year-on-year — but almost entirely on foreign foundations. Every model fine-tuned from Llama or GPT is intelligence that can be switched off, restricted, or compromised at the source.
VKD Industries exists to change that. We are building the indigenous AI stack that India's commercial, government, and defence sectors will run on — not as a vision, but as a working product that exists today and scales tomorrow.
The goal is not to compete with OpenAI. The goal is to build the AI infrastructure that a sovereign nation needs — and that only an indigenous company can provide.
We are open to investment conversations, strategic partnerships, and institutional collaborations. If you are building for India's future — we want to hear from you.