Telangana to launch India's first state-led digital public infrastructure for AI on July 2
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The Telangana government , in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will launch India's first state-led digital public infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI)-the Telangana Data Exchange (TGDeX)-on July 2.TGDeX aims to develop cross-domain AI solutions through collaboration between the state, industry, research institutions, and startups, an official release said on Monday.The platform, developed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, will provide access to high-quality data and collaborative tools for AI developers. JICA's DXLab is providing strategic and technical guidance for the project."I invite all ecosystem stakeholders to join us in realising this vision," the release quoted Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy as saying.TGDeX will leverage Telangana's strong AI ecosystem, including state departments, private players, academic institutions, and open-source or licensed data providers.The AI-ready platform will also leverage the open data platform, the central repository of all Government of Telangana datasets intended for the public domain.The state's tech ecosystem-comprising the Telangana AI Mission , T-Hub, MATH (AI/ML Centre of Excellence at T-Hub), IIT Hyderabad, and the Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH)-will support TGDeX's goal of hosting over 2,000 AI-ready datasets within the next five years, the release added.
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