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Appupen

Appupen has been one of India’s leading voices in comics since the publication of his first book Moonward (2009). He is the creator of the mythical world of Halahala. He was artist-in-residence at Angoulême in 2021. He is the co-creator of Dream Machine: AI and the Real World (2024) with Laurent Daudet, a physics professor in Paris and Co-CEO and Co-Founder of LightOn, a start-up at the forefront of ‘large language models’, the new generation of AI.