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NITI Aayog, Intel, and TIFR are collaborating to establish a Model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) in Bengaluru focused on applying AI research to healthcare, agriculture, and smart mobility. The center aims to develop AI frameworks, tools, and algorithms through collaboration between industry and academia. It will also focus on skills development, productization of technologies, and informing national policy on AI application and ethics. This model ICTAI aims to establish best practices to guide future AI research centers across India.

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NITI Aayog, Intel, and TIFR are collaborating to establish a Model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) in Bengaluru focused on applying AI research to healthcare, agriculture, and smart mobility. The center aims to develop AI frameworks, tools, and algorithms through collaboration between industry and academia. It will also focus on skills development, productization of technologies, and informing national policy on AI application and ethics. This model ICTAI aims to establish best practices to guide future AI research centers across India.

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NITI Aayog, Intel and TIFR collaborate to set up a Model

International Center for Transformative AI (ICTAI)


Aiming to solve major challenges in India, the center will focus on application-based AI
research in healthcare, agriculture and smart mobility

NEW DELHI, September 7, 2018: NITI Aayog, Intel, and Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR) announced today that they are collaborating to set up a Model
International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) towards developing
and deploying AI-led application-based research projects. This initiative is part of NITI
Aayog’s ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence’ Discussion Paper that focuses on
establishing ICTAI in the country through private sector collaboration.
Based in Bengaluru, the Model ICTAI aims to conduct advanced research to incubate AI-led
solutions in three important areas – healthcare, agriculture and smart mobility – by
bringing together the expertise of Intel and TIFR.It aims to experiment, discover and
establish best practices in the domains of ICTAI governance, fundamental research,
physical infrastructure, compute and service infrastructure needs, and talent acquisition.
Through this collaborative effort, the model ICTAI is chartered to develop AI foundational
frameworks, tools and assets, including curated datasets and unique AI algorithms.The
intent is to develop standards and support policy development related to information
technology such as data-storage, information security, privacy, and ethics for data capture
and use. The model Centre also plans to develop AI foundational technologies to promote
applied research that can scale for national impact and will lead to the creation of a vibrant
and self-sustaining ecosystem.
Another key area of its focus will be collaboration with industry leaders, startups, and AI
services and product companies to productize technologies and IP that are developed at
the model ICTAI. And finally, the goal is to support skilling and talent development for
world-class AI talent.
The learning and best practices developed through this model ICTAI will be used by NITI
Aayog to set up the future ICTAIs across country.
Quote from NITI Aayog
Anna Roy, Advisor, NITI Aayog, said “NITI Aayog had recommended ICTAIs for applied
research in AI in the National Strategy Paper. Private sector collaboration is deemed to be
essential in making fundamental research get adopted for solving actual problems India
faces, especially in the five sectors identified in the paper – Healthcare, Agriculture, Education,
Smart cities and Mobility. This collaboration with TIFR and Intel will help us experiment and
establish the foundational governance practices required to enable such applied research
institutions succeed in the long term.”

Quote from Intel


Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India, & Vice President, Data Center Group, said,
“Artificial Intelligence is going to be a transformative driver of economic growth and social
progress, and Intel’s vision is to drive human-centric AI to benefit humanity in an inclusive
manner. In India, through the AI-for-All initiative, we aim to deliver the twin goals of solving
hard problems of humanity, and helping India achieve its vision of global AI leader, by
bringing together a rich ecosystem of research, innovation, technology development and
deployment. We take immense pride in being the Industry lead along with NITI Aayog and
TIFR, and I believe the model ICTAI will pave the way for application-based AI research and
solutions needed in India for critical domains such as healthcare, agriculture, and smart
mobility.”

Quote from TIFR


Sandip Trivedi, Director TIFR, said, ``This collaboration is a very exciting beginning where
we plan to bring fundamental and applied research, innovation and technology development
together to solve important problems facing our nation with potentially transformative
effects on society. There are also a number of important issues related to ethics, privacy, etc,
that AI and related technologies raise which are important to address. TIFR is excited to be in
this collaboration; this center will be an important role model for future partnerships
between industry, academia and government which are the need of the hour in our country
today.

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