IBM has announced that it has signed three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with three entities engaged with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to boost innovation in AI, Semiconductor and Quantum technology for India.

The aim is to accelerate India’s national strategy for AI, strengthen efforts to be self-reliant in semiconductors and advance its National Quantum Mission. These MoUs will provide the IT ministry access to IBM’s expertise to build and advance India’s competency and scale its growth mission in the AI, semiconductor and quantum industries.

Establish AI Innovation Platform (AIIP)
As a part of this, IBM and IndiaAI – Digital India Corporation intend to collaborate to establish a world-class national AI Innovation Platform (AIIP) for India. This 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 would have access to relevant capabilities of IBM’s watsonx platform, including the ability to use models in language, code and geospatial science with the intent to train models for other domains as needed.

IBM will also be a knowledge partner of India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) for a semiconductor research centre.

“Semiconductors, AI and Quantum, these three technologies will transform the future in the coming years. They represent tremendous opportunities for our academic institutions, startups, and innovation ecosystem. The broader opportunity lies in creating a global standard talent pool in India, capable of taking advantage of the opportunities in quantum computing, AI, and semiconductors,” said IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

Additionally, IBM and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will also explore opportunities for working together to support the advancement of India’s National Quantum Mission by building competency in quantum computing technology, applications in areas of national interest, and a skilled quantum workforce.

Supporting the government’s efforts in building infrastructure, enhancing human capital and knowledge creation in these three areas of technology will be integral to India’s digital transformation and economic growth,” added Sandip Patel, MD, IBM India & South Asia.

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