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State of Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Telangana

August 31, 2023 672 0 AI from Telangana

State of Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Telangana

The state of Telangana has emerged as an AI frontrunner, driven by its visionary leadership and progressive policies. Their AI mission, T-AIM, supported by nasscom, created the State of Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Telangana study that offers a comprehensive view of the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption within the state – by the government, industry, startups, and private actors – in terms of capacity building, research and innovation, implementations, and future initiatives. The study highlights the adoption of AI by the government of Telangana to improve governance and public services. The report highlights the growth of AI startups that are solving complex challenges. It is encouraging to see the approach taken by Telangana's government in bringing together vision, policy, partnerships, and initiatives to power social-scale and highly innovative AI development ecosystems.

Key Highlights

  • Telangana’s AI mission, objectives, and achievements have been built on 8-10 core pillars –  
    • These pillars comprise the vision to be a leader, government-led initiatives, AI alliances, focus on multiple emerging technologies for scaled AI adoption, execution-focused AI and tech policies, government-driven partnerships with academia and industry, launch of Telangana AI Mission (T-AIM), focus of quality research, and synchronized work to strengthen 4 priority areas of research, human capacity, policies, and startups and innovation

 

  • Research has been given the centre seat for AI development
    • SCImago Institutions Rankings 2022 mentions six universities from Telangana that are ranked in the top 1,000 globally for research publications in computer science – The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) and Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) led the pack by securing 508 and 552 ranks, with publications having grown at a 31% CAGR at each institute.
    • These publications cut across computer vision, NLP, ML, and data mining, and across the AI publications from India, 35% of computer vision and 73% of robotics publications are by faculty from Telangana.
    • Private corporate research institutes by companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, Kore.ai, etc. have a major role to play in driving quality research publications from the state.
    • The H-Index author productivity and citation intensity score of IIITH faculty has outperformed all other institutes of eminence in India, at 22.5 score versus the national average of 15.2
    • 61% of all patent filings originating from Telangana are in the AI/ML field
    • Government of Telangana’s T-AIM is building 410 petaflops of AI compute capacity with CDAC for access to all SMEs and startups in the state

 

  • The Government of Telangana is at the forefront of embracing AI across various sectors, with declaration of 2020 as the ‘Year of AI’
    • Twofold approach to build the relevant ecosystem for AI advancement and to boost government adoption of AI in public and governance services
    • Institutions such as T-Works, T-Hub, WE-Hub, RICH, TASK are focused on AI and emerging tech startup ecosystem expansion
    • Government’s IT, Electronics, and Communications ministry has been spearheading policy making for all emerging technologies, from the Data Centers Policy in 2016, to the recent-most Robotics policy framework in 2023.
    • Telangana State (TS) Open Data Portal (ODP) is a custom-built open data portal that provides datasets with uniform nomenclature for public and private utilization, enabling the overlaying of data, making it convenient for deeper analysis, with over 140 datasets currently hosted.
    • Technology innovation hackathons and challenges have been designed on an open innovation model and have been leveraged by various departments, including transportation, agriculture, and forest.

 

  • Telangana is aggressively building digital talent: 
    • As per 2022 NIRF rankings, there are five colleges from Telangana in the top 100 list of this ranking. The state has done exceptionally well in increasing diversity in educational institutes, creating a large pool of quality talent and providing vocational training
    • Telangana is deploying it’s healthy gender parity index (GPI) of 1.09 among the student population to build a diverse, and non-biased AI talent
    • There are nearly 10,000 postgraduates and 450PhD holders passing out annually from colleges in Telangana with relevant skill set useful for AI domain.
    • TASK, or Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge, is making efforts to build the employability quotient of young graduates in the state, by enabling a collaboration platform between the government, academia and industry to enhance skilling, research and entrepreneurship.
    • Over 2,000students received basic AI/ML training, while over 5,000 received deep-tech training in programs launched by TASK in partnership with tech services companies.
    • The department of IT, Government of Telangana, has set a target to train one lakh students in basic AI skills.

 

  • Startups are critical to boost innovation for Telangana’s AI vision
    • According to the 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Telangana is among the top 10 global ecosystems and occupies the fourth position in Asian ecosystems in terms of affordable talent.
    • As on June 2023, T-Hub has impacted over 2,250 entrepreneurs and witnessed funding of USD 1.9 billion for startups since inception. With phase 2, the aim is to support another 2,000 startups
    • Institutional support for startups has been enhanced with several notifications on preferential procurement from startups since April 2018.
    • Telangana has 51incubators and accelerators, 305 investors from the state of which 88% were angel investors, 6,873 registered startups of which 211 (3% of total startups) are AI/ML-based.
    • T-Hub is India’s fastest-growing startup enginecatalysing innovation, scale, and deal flow. It is a unique public-private partnership between the Government of Telangana, three of India’s premier academic institutes (IIITH, ISB and National Academy of Legal Studies and Research
    • [NALSAR]) and key private sector leaders.
    • There are over 100 Generative AI startups in India offering application services on top of foundation models. Telangana is home to several of these startups, notably, Supermeme.ai, Neuralsync AI, SiteGPT, and Eizen.

 

Telangana is working on the following aspects to bolster the AI and Gen AI ccosystem in the state:

  • Policy changes for universities and engineering colleges to afford employing high-quality academicians
  • Seed funds from the government to finance specific research projects originating from CoEs/research affiliate programmes
  • Government-led creation of sector-specific datasets with an objective to solve specific problems in consultation with the industry
  • Stronger, focused, and outcome-oriented research collaborations between IT firms, research institutes, startup incubators, VCs, and government departments
  • Public infrastructure providers must be encouraged to provide access to the facilities at affordable rates to start-ups
  • Incentives to corporates to invest in building ‘community development institutes’ for rapid-scale AI skilling, particularly Gen AI training programs
  • Incentives to tech providers to enable student access through free or majorly discounted models for students to start experimenting much earlier in their schooling days

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