Rupta AI

About Rupta AI

About Rupta AI

Research intelligent routing for the next generation of AI infrastructure.

Our Mission

AI is moving into a heterogeneous era: frontier models, specialized models, private models, edge devices, cloud fleets, and data-center accelerators will all coexist. The core infrastructure question is no longer only how to serve a model. It is how to decide which intelligence should run for a given task, on which hardware, and for which user preference.

Rupta AI builds the routing layer that turns this fragmentation into system intelligence. Our work unifies three control problems: model coordination, execution placement, and efficiency optimization. Specialized models operate as one system; workloads move between edge devices, cloud fleets, and data-center accelerators; tokens, power, and quality become a single allocation problem.

  1. Cost: match tasks to the smallest capable model and execution surface, so routine work does not pay frontier model prices.
  2. Safety: route through safety-aware paths that defend against jailbreaks and PII leakage, while also constraining model behavior as systems become more capable.
  3. Quality: use routing algorithms and model collaboration to improve answer quality, and in selected domains move beyond the frontier of a single-model architecture.

Leadership

Leadership

Xunzhuo Liu

Co-founder

Xunzhuo Liu

LLM Routing @ vLLM, CNCF Ambassador, Linux Foundation APAC Ambassador, and Chair of the Kubernetes AI Gateway Working Group.

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Bowei He

Co-founder

Bowei He

Postdoc at MBZUAI and McGill, PhD from CityUHK, and former Tencent Hunyuan LLM intern focused on routing and infrastructure.

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Yankai Chen

Co-founder

Yankai Chen

Postdoctoral Associate at McGill University and MBZUAI, with research spanning agentic AI, human-centered AI, and knowledge mining.

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Advisor

Advisor

Steve Liu

Advisor

Steve Liu

Associate Vice President for Research at MBZUAI, Professor at McGill, Associate Member at Mila, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and IEEE.

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