Cambridge, MA — January 31, 2026 — NZeroC AI, founded by MIT engineer Sidhant Kumar, has been selected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — the world’s leading research university — for funding, AI research collaboration, and access to its innovation network.
The MIT student-founded startup is developing dedicated AI infrastructure for enterprises seeking control, data security, low latency and high throughput for real-time tasks, at predictable lower cost. AI enterprises in regulated industries, frontier labs, industrial automation with edge computing, etc are good fit for this dedicated modular AI data center infrastructure.
MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund have both awarded n0c Tech non-dilutive grants, providing financial backing and resources to accelerate its technology development.
NZeroC AI aims to play a pivotal role in the global AI adoption and in serving demand for AI infra with higher data protection, compliance, control, low latency, high throughput and predictable cost, while keeping the carbon footprint of compute as low as possible.