Lucknow, July 26 -- The state capital has received a corpus of Rs.10,732 crore for developing the AI ecosystem under the IndiaAI Mission approved in March 2024. The move comes at a time when plans are afoot to develop Lucknow as the country's first AI City.

The initiative is part of a major push to develop Uttar Pradesh as the new IT destination.

The proposed investment is meant for 10,000 Graphics Processing Units, multi-modal language models and an AI innovation center. The state government will soon come up with the draft AI policy in line with Vision 2047.

According to the state government, this investment is 67% higher than any other technology infrastructure in the country.

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