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Adithya Rohith

Founder · Researcher · Musician

@mp3addi

Spotlight

Selected work
Taan.ai logo

Co-Founder & CEO

Taan.ai — What is Taan

Jan 2026 – Present
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Building controllable foundation music models for video.

Incubated at NSRCEL, IIM BangaloreLocalhostHQ Founders Program

built novel generation architecture outperforming SOTA models on time-adherence benchmarks

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Guitar & vocals

E# — performing live

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Professional guitarist and metal vocalist in a progressive metal band.

Played shows in 5 citiesWinners of 9 Battle of the Bands competitions

Performed at BITS Goa, BITS Hyderabad, IIT Madras, RVCE & more.

Performing live

Research

Music ML · papers & patents
TimingBench research paper artwork

Yash Bhake, Adithya R & Devansh Gupta

Are you rushing or dragging?

August 2026

A Benchmark for Temporal Controllability in Text-to-Music Generation

TimingBench measures whether musical events arrive at the requested time. 250 prompts cover single events, multiple events, and tempo instructions.

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Research and IP — experiments in sound

Co-author

Published patents and research

Research & IP

Co-author; core experimentation code for both music patents.

  • Patent Published · App. No. 202541117742System and method for generating music using a dynamically selected ensemble of AI models
  • Patent Published · App. No. 202541010312System and method for generating and validating music composition
  • Research Paper Under ReviewHybrid Diffusion-Transformer Architecture for Multitrack Mood-Based Carnatic Music Generation.

Past work

Ventures, inventions & early experiments
Aalap AI

Founder & CEO

Aalap AI

Dec 2024 – Nov 2025

Built AI music systems for advertising and branding.

$1k MRRCoCreate Ventures term sheet at age 20

Led product, customer discovery and technical execution.

Granted patent — invention and intellectual property

Inventor

A multi-layer, elastic shoe lace

Patent No. 511216

Granted patent, with the original certificate and filing drawings.

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Building and selling

Robin Internships

Cisco × Nasscom

Built an internship platform reaching ~850 users.

Top 20 of 1,000+ startupsCisco × Nasscom ThingQbator

The Aatmatrisha 2025 student council team

President

PES University Student Council

Oversaw university clubs and one of the institution’s largest festivals.

Led 750+ student leadersManaged a ₹1Cr+ budget

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Building and selling

Before 18 — the early experiments

The early years

Built and sold consumer products before 18, starting on Amazon at 11.

Football-shoe resale side hustle; a liquid nitrogen ice-cream venture that generated ₹60,000 in 3 days.

Media

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