State of Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem in Telangana

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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.

Key Findings

Research has been given the center seat for AI development in Telangana

Six universities from Telangana find mention in the global 1000 from SCImago Institutions Rankings 2022 – IIITH at 508 and IITH at 552 ranks
Of all AI publications from India, 35% of computer vision and 73% of robotics publications are by faculty from Telangana
61% of all patent filings originating from Telangana are in the AI/ML field
Government of Telangana’s T-AIM is planning building 410 petaflops of AI compute capacity for access to all SMEs and startups in the state

Strong government adoption of AI across various sectors, with declaration of 2020 as the 'Year of AI'

Twofold approach – relevant industry ecosystem and high government adoption of AI
Institutions such as T-Works, T-Hub, WE-Hub, RICH, TASK are focused on AI and emerging tech startup ecosystem expansion
Multiple Telangana-focused technology policies since 2016
Telangana State (TS) Open Data Portal (ODP) – a custom-built open data portal that provides datasets with uniform nomenclature for public and private utilization
Technology innovation hackathons and challenges designed on an open innovation model

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
Telangana’s gender parity index (GPI) of 1.09 is good to build diverse, non-biased AI talent base
Nearly 10,000 postgraduates and 450 PhD holders annually with relevant skillsets in AI domain
TASK, or Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge, is at the forefront of cross-stakeholder collaboration to improve AI talent employability quotient
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
T-Hub at the forefront with 2,250 entrepreneurs impacted and funding of USD 1.9 billion as of June 2023
51 incubators 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
Of nearly 122+ Gen AI startups in India, several leading ones are from Telangana, notably Supermeme.ai, Neuralsync AI, SiteGPT, and Eizen

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