The annual report keeps track, collects e displays AI-related data, to support meaningful decisions, and advance AI responsibly and ethically. The AI Index Report supports many different organizations to track progress in artificial intelligence. These organizations include: the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, LinkedIn, NetBase Quid, Lightcast, and McKinsey. The AI Index Report also expanded its tracking of global AI legislation from 25 countries in 2022 to 127 in 2023. The demand for AI-related job skills is increasing in virtually all industries (in the US).

NEW DELHI: The four committees set up by the ministry of electronics and IT (MEITY) to deliberate on the various aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are expected to publish the report of their findings by end of this month. The government had constituted four committees in February this year with the aim of understanding various regulatory and technical challenges associated with AI along with areas where the technology could be implemented. The committees have a representation from the government, academia, companies such as Google and Microsoft along with industry bodies such as Nasscom. While the committee on platforms and data for AI is headed by Professor PP Chakraborty of IIT Kharagpur, the one for leveraging AI for identifying national missions in key sectors has Professor Rajeev Sangal of IIT-BHU as its chairman. Executives such as Anant Maheshwari, president of Microsoft India, Gautam Shroff, head of research of Tata Consultancy Services and Ganesh Mahabala of Nvidia and Sanjay Sinha, India/ South Asia Leader for Watson Data & AI Platforms at IBM are some of the top industry representatives to be part of these committees.

Over 1B has been invested in AI-Infrastructure startups since 2010 with 340M being invested in 2015. Over 7.5B has been invested in AI-Applications startups since 2010 with 2.3B being invested in 2015. This Artificial Intelligence Report has been produced by Tracxn for the BootstrapLabs Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2016.