Overview
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis used Mumbai Tech Week to announce a roadmap that aims to attract ₹10,000 crore in AI investment and create 150,000 jobs by 2031, a plan he unveiled on Friday.
- The government said it will build six AI Centres of Excellence and designate AI Innovation Regions to support research, startups and industry partnerships across health, agriculture, urban services and finance.
- Maharashtra pledged a compute-as-a-service platform that will make roughly 2,000 GPUs available to startups, researchers and companies to lower the cost barrier for developing AI models.
- Officials showcased live deployments such as MahaVISTAAR-AI for farmers and MahaCrimeOS for policing and directed departments to develop about 50 AI engines for use in agriculture, disaster response, crime analysis and HR.
- Leaders called for responsible AI and human oversight as the state seeks private-sector uptake, and the plan’s impact will depend on funding, implementation detail and how quickly companies use the offered infrastructure.