Karnataka preferable choice for AI centre of excellence

Bengaluru, Mar 27 (KNN) It is likely that one of India’s three Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will come up in Karnataka, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha, told DH.

In the Union Budget, it was announced that three Centres of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be set up in top educational institutions.

The centres will see industry players help with interdisciplinary research and development of cutting-edge applications in agriculture, health and sustainable cities.

“Karnataka government has already applied for it. I am inclined to ensure Karnataka gets it,” he said.

The centres come under the India AI programme that Chandrasekhar’s ministry is designing.

He said American microprocessor engineer Jim Keller — whom he referred to as the “God of AI” — has set up a startup in Whitefield to do “next-gen AI compute chips”.  (KNN Bureau)