Lucknow, Nov. 20 -- Uttar Pradesh is emerging as a global benchmark in Artificial Intelligence (AI) across multiple sectors, with the technology being implemented on a wide scale and evolving from a mere slogan to a guiding principle of governance, officials said here on Thursday.

The state capital, Lucknow, is being transformed into India's first fully AI-enabled city. Unlike conventional "smart city" models, Lucknow's infrastructure is being strengthened with cutting-edge technology to function as the national hub for AI-driven governance, the officials said.

The AI facilities include a State-supported AI Innovation Hub, supercomputing infrastructure with over 10,000 GPUs, Multilingual AI models in native languages, R&D infrastructure a...