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India is planning to set up a comprehensive AI ecosystem in the country with an estimated cost of Rs 10,361 crore (file photo)
Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar told a press conference that these laboratories will be operated with the technical help of ‘global AI giants’.
Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar, the BJP-led NDA’s candidate in Thiruvananthapuram, on Monday announced the setting up of 10 Artificial Intelligence labs in 10 colleges in the constituency. The minister told a press conference here that these laboratories will be operated with the technical help of ‘global AI giants’.
“We have received applications from 17 colleges, and as a first phase, 10 of them will be allotted AI labs. The names are yet to be finalised,” Chandrashekhar said. He said that these laboratories have been allotted under the new India AI Mission.
India is planning to set up a comprehensive AI ecosystem in the country with an estimated cost outlay of Rs 10,361 crore. Chandrashekhar said, Rs 2,000 crore has been kept to promote startups in AI. Responding to a question on why he has decided to give 10 laboratories to colleges in Thiruvananthapuram, Chandrasekhar hinted at his candidature in the constituency, saying that now he clearly has a reason to give it to colleges in the Kerala capital. Is.
“I have a reason to start here. I have come here to represent Thiruvananthapuram,” said the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Electronics and Information Technology and Jal Shakti. He said there was nothing unethical in using the government machinery to announce projects for Thiruvananthapuram, as he was happy to do so for the people of Thiruvananthapuram.
“I’m a candidate, and that’s why I’m doing this. I have nothing to hide in this,” Chandrashekhar said. He said that he wanted to do this work before becoming MP (of Thiruvananthapuram) and he is doing so. Chandrashekhar said, “If I were a normal politician, I would have done this after the elections.” He said that in the last few years he has started many such programs across the country and is now doing it in Thiruvananthapuram.
“Only now can I talk about Thiruvananthapuram, because I have just got the chance. If you had asked me two years ago, how would I have described Thiruvananthapuram? Only now, I got the chance,” said Chandrashekhar. He said the number of AI labs is not going to be limited, and in the next five years, any college that wants a lab will have one with government support. “I said I’m starting it, not finishing it. I believe such laboratories will spread across Kerala and across India,” he said.
The Minister of State said that the name of the global AI giant will be revealed when he feels the time has come to do so. “This is not just the Indian government, but a collaboration of the Indian government with a global AI giant,” Chandrashekhar said.
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