US
chipmaker Intel has trained as many as 99,000 developers, students and
professors in artificial intelligence (AI) in India since April 2017, against a
target of 15,000 for the first year of its programme, according to the tech
major.
It has also tied up with premier educational
institutes like the IITs in Delhi, Mumbai, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Chennai, and
IIITs in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, BITS Pilani, ISI Kolkata, IISc Bangalore, CDAC
and companies like Shell and TCS among others for training under its AI
developer education.
"Though we had committed to training 15,000 developers, students, and
professors in AI initially through training and workshops, we have already
exceeded the target over seven-fold at over 99,000 by roping in many of them
from 100 organisations," said Prakash Mallya, managing director for sales
and marketing, Intel India.
The programme was launched in April 2017 and
the initial target was for a year ending April 2018, he said, adding the
programme is aimed to democratising AI through collaborations with partners and
customers.
Intel powers as much as 97 per cent of data
centre servers running AI workloads at present in the world.
The company, which organised its first AI
developer conference in the country last week in Bengaluru after the initiative
in home market US earlier this year, had over 500 developers attending it.
It also announced collaborations with Philips
India and Mphasis to deploy its AI portfolio in the local ecosystem.
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