New Delhi/Amaravati, February 21 The Andhra Pradesh government has signed seven agreements at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, with most of them focused on higher education, advanced skills training, and school transformation.
The agreements were signed on Friday in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who said that the state is choosing to build its AI future through its students, according to an official press release.
"The chief minister oversaw the signing of seven key MoUs and Letters of Intent, most of which are directly focused on higher education, advanced skills training, and school transformation," it said.
Agreements were signed with IBM, UNICC, NIELIT, IIT Madras, BharatGen, and WISER.
With IBM, the southern state signed a Letter of Intent to train one lakh learners over the next three to five years in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum Computing.
This collaboration will explore access to IBM's global digital learning platforms, enabling learners to gain industry-aligned, future-ready skills and strengthen the state's emerging tech workforce pipeline.
The agreement with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) will establish a Centre of Excellence for AI and Quantum (computing) at Amaravati Quantum Valley in 2026.
UNICC, with over 55 years of experience serving more than 100 UN entities and international organizations, brings global best practices in secure and sovereign AI, the release said.
The Centre is expected to position Amaravati as a digital embassy for secure AI, aligned with UN-grade standards.
Similarly, Andhra Pradesh entered into an agreement with the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) to establish the first NIELIT deemed university campus in South India, dedicated to Quantum and AI education.
Backed by central government funding, state-provided land, space, and quantum hardware access, the campus is set to emerge as a national hub for emerging technology talent development.
Similarly, Andhra Pradesh signed an agreement with Cabilo AI to strengthen AI and digital innovation capabilities across more than 50 higher educational institutions in Andhra Pradesh.
This initiative covers graduation and post-graduation students, faculty development, AI-integrated curricula, applied use cases, and innovation labs to enhance employability outcomes.
Additionally, through the Real Time Governance Society, the government is establishing a state-level AI Sandbox in partnership with Calibo Inc.
The sandbox will provide a secure and controlled environment to design and validate AI solutions for governance and public service delivery, the release said.
The state signed an MoU with WISER – Washington Institute for STEM, Entrepreneurship, and Research – to establish a Centre of Excellence and Talent Hub under the Amaravati Quantum Valley initiative.
The program has already trained over 62,000 learners and aims to train 3.5 lakh learners by 2026 and six lakh learners the following year, with a cumulative target of 3.5 million learners.
Furthermore, Andhra Pradesh has partnered with BharatGen, NexGen, and IBM to launch a state-wide AI Tech Hub built on a five-layer Swadeshi AI Stack.
The platform will integrate 22 Indian languages, more than 500 sovereign GPUs, and indigenous large language models to support governance, welfare, agriculture, MSMEs, and education.
Pushing for AI in school education, the government signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in partnership with Bodhan AI to roll out an AI Tutor across Government, Aided, and Private schools in Andhra Pradesh.
For Andhra Pradesh, artificial intelligence is not merely an economic lever, but an educational mission that begins in classrooms, scales through universities, and prepares an entire generation for the quantum and AI era, the press release added.
