The First Edition of the IndiaAI Report

Context

Seven working groups of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) submitted the first edition of the IndiaAI report.

What is IndiaAI?

• IndiaAI: National AI Portal of India.
• Launched: 2020
• Launched by: Joint initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), NASSCOM, and National e-Governance Division.
• Features:

• The portal acts as a hub for cooperation, research, and knowledge on artificial intelligence.
• It provides information, news, and articles regarding AI as well as insights into the AI landscapes in India and throughout the world.
• For professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and students interested in AI, it also provides resources and career guidance.

• Key recommendations:

1. IndiaAI Centres of Excellence (CoEs): Performing fundamental research and facilitating collaborations between industry, academia, and government are only a few of its possible functions.
2.  India Dataset Platform (IDP): Create the technological architecture and provide roles, duties, and other details for the data-sharing platform. To support data providers from different ministries and agencies, IDP is being developed as a federal framework.
3. Institutional Capacity and Design of National Data Management Office (NDMO): Make the NDMO an independent, non-statutory organization. Within every ministry or department, create a data management unit.
4.  IndiaAI Future Design: Provide capital to AI startups that show promise; allow CoEs to provide access to cutting-edge AI infrastructure; and so on.
5. IndiaAI Future Skills:

• Provide a comprehensive AI curriculum that addresses the foundations of statistics, math, and AI.
•  scholarships and fellowships for research to strengthen tier 2-3–4 institutions' capacity for research.

6. IndiaAI Future Labs Compute: Establish five locations with top-notch AI compute infrastructure that can handle three thousand AI Petaflops each.
7. Semicon IndiaAI Chipsets: The SemiconIndia future Design Linked Incentive Scheme may provide help for the design of AI chipsets that could be relevant for High-Performance Computing.

Global India AI Summit

• Organized by: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
• Purpose: The summit will cover a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI)-related issues, including next-generation learning, AI applications in the fields of healthcare, governance, and electric cars, as well as potential future research areas, AI computing, investment prospects, and the cultivation of AI talent.

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