IBM has announced a collaboration with the Indian government to advance innovation in artificial intelligence, semiconductor research, and quantum technologies. As part of the three Memorandums of Understanding with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, IBM and the government will establish a national AI innovation platform with access to IBM's recently announced Watson X platform for using models in language, code, and geospatial science, with the intent to train models for other domains as needed.

 

The platform will focus on AI skilling, ecosystem development, and integrating advanced foundation models and generative AI capabilities to support India’s scientific, commercial, and human-capital development in this technology. AIIP will serve as an accelerator for incubation and competency development in AI technologies and their applications for use cases of national importance, as per livemint.

 

As per IBM India MD Sandip Patil, IBM will share experience with the Indian semiconductor mission, the key body tasked with making India a key player in the global semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, to help in creating world-class semiconductors, research and development, skill development, and archetypical chip design.

 

Based on the company, IBM will share its experience with ISM on intellectual property, tools, initiatives, and skill development aimed at promoting innovation in semiconductor technologies such as logic, advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration, and advanced chip design technologies using modernized infrastructure.

 

IBM will also work with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to help India with its national quantum mission. IBM will collaborate with the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology and the Ministry to assist the FutureSkills program, as well as futureDESIGN companies in Quantum and AI.