‘All I had was a laptop and spotty internet’: How a 19-year-old built a Rs 1-crore-a-month AI business
When most teenagers were attending online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ayush Singh was teaching himself artificial intelligence.The 19-year-old is now in the news after a post shared on X claimed that his company focused on artificial intelligence earns around one million rupees a month. According to the publication, Ayush’s journey did not begin with access to elite institutions or expensive resources.“He’s not an IITian, not an MIT graduate, and he wasn’t born with a silver spoon,” the post said. His interest in AI began when he was 13 years old. At the time, his family was facing financial difficulties during the pandemic. The post said he had very little to work with.“At the age of 13, during the Covid, his family suffered a financial crisis. All he had were outdated courses, patchy internet, a laptop and a ridiculous curiosity.”Despite these challenges, Ayush decided to learn machine learning on his own using available resources. The publication claimed that their efforts quickly began to pay off.“Within months, he was working with startups overseas,” he said. It also stated that “At 14, MIT publicly recommended his course.”Over the next few years, Ayush worked on natural language processing systems for a US startup. He also gained experience as an MLOps engineer and data scientist while continuing to build his profile in the AI industry.According to the publication, he later founded Antern and co-founded Second Brain Labs. Alongside his initial work, he also began teaching artificial intelligence to engineers.“Today, he is teaching AI to hundreds of engineers across India, helping them achieve the kind of work that once felt out of reach,” the post said.However, turning this knowledge into a successful business was not easy. The publication noted that despite helping hundreds of students, the teaching was not producing the returns it had hoped for.“And yet, for all that, teaching never paid off for him again,” he said. According to the publication, things changed when he focused on presenting and selling his expertise more effectively.The story quickly gained attention online, with many social media users reacting to the entrepreneur’s achievements at such a young age. “My 28 year old self feels jealous and depressed to see so many kids achieve so much at such a young age,” one user wrote.
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