Indian Government to Setup 10 AI Labs at 10 Colleges
The Indian government plans to set up 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) labs at 10 colleges across Kerala state, the Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrashekhar said. These AI labs will be set up in collaboration with leading global tech companies as partners in Thiruvananthapuram, he added.
The minister further said, the labs will consist of a blend of government and private institutions and are part of the IndiaAI Mission. Pointing out that this initiative was a mere beginning, he pointed out that the IndiaAI mission has a financial outlay of Rs.103.71 billion.
“Innovation centres under the IndiaAI Mission will harness the power of AI for our Indian digital economy and our citizens. They will develop in areas such as health, medicine discovery, agriculture, education, security, governance, and language translation, among others,” said the Union Minister.
“Therefore, a capacity of 10,000 GPUs for AI computing will help startups in Kerala and across the country that currently lack adequate AI computing resources. Rs.20 billion has been set aside to finance startups,” local newspapers added.
