Microsoft launches AI labs in India, collaborate with 10 institutes

Tech giant Microsoft on Thursday said that it will launch AI digital labs in the country in collaboration with 10 higher education institutions, including BITS Pilani and ISB. A part of the three-year program, Microsoft will support the selected institutions with infrastructure, curriculum and content, access to cloud and Artificial intelligence services as well as developer support, Microsoft said in a statement. Microsoft's collaboration with institutions benefits: This collaboration with colleges and universities will ramp up institutional set-up along with educator capability, and provide relevant educational choices for students, helping them acquire the required skills "As AI becomes mainstream, organizations will require talent with skill sets that are very different from what exists now. Institutions included in the collaboration with Microsoft: BITS Pilani BML Munjal University ISB Kalpataru Institute of Technology KL University Periyar University Karunya University SRM Institute of Science and technology SVKM Trident Academy of Technology About Microsoft AI: At Microsoft, researchers in artificial intelligence are harnessing the explosion of digital data and computational power with advanced algorithms to enable collaborative and natural interactions between people and machines that extend the human ability to sense, learn and understand.